The Right to Write: The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

by Kathrynn Seidler Engberg

This book examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This study provides new conceptions of early American women's writing that are valuable to feminist inquiry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761846093
• ISBN13: 9780761846093
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"