Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples

by Jonathan Goldberg

Book Overview

In a set of readings ranging from early-sixteenth- through late-seventeenth-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in their culture and by their articulation of a variety of desires (including the desire to write) not bound by the usual prescriptions that limited women.

The book is in three parts. The first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729832
• ISBN13: 9780804729833
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"