Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon

Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems. Using standard genres to address distinctly feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" repeatedly projects a female subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813120497
• ISBN13: 9780813120492
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"