Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England

by Julie Crawford

Book Overview

Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England considers the roles women played as literary patrons, dedicatees, readers, and writers in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, and the intimate relationship between these literary activities and what has often been called 'politically active' humanism. Focusing on the interrelated communities centered on Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Margaret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198831110
• ISBN13: 9780198831112
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"