Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689

by Hero Chalmers

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273278
• ISBN13: 9780199273270
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"