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Women writing back/writing women back, transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era, edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk

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Women writing back/writing women back, transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era, edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Women writing back/writing women back
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
539081780
Responsibility statement
edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk
Series statement
Intersections Boston, Mass., v. 16
Sub title
transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era
Table Of Contents
Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya -- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-155) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (164-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia
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Content