Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty

by Patricia Pender

Book Overview

An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349348589
• ISBN13: 9781349348589
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"