Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance

by Tina Kronitiris

Overview

Oppositional Voices is a study of six women writers in the late Elizabethan period, who, ignoring Renaissance society's injunction that women should confine themselves to religious compositions, wrote and translated poetry, drama and romantic fiction. Tina Krontiris brings together their work, including at times their voiced opposition to certain oppressive ideas and stereotypes. Rather than simply glorify these voices, her study subtly probes the influence of a culture inimical to female creative activity on the writings of these women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415063296
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/02/1992
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Authored by Kronitiris, Tina

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Culture, Change, and Women's Responses; Chapter 2 Servant Girls Claiming Male Domain; Chapter 3 Noblewomen Dramatizing the Husband-Wife Conflict; Chapter 4 Women of the Jacobean Court Defending their Sex; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

'This is avery welcome paperback edition of a useful, carefully researched and thoughtfully compiled critical introduction to six early modern women writers ... Oppositonal Voices contributes to the larger ongoing feminist critial project, to rewrite the 'book of myths' in which 'our names do not appear' into a more inclusive and empowering herstory of women's writing, giving attention to all its genres and complex strategies.' - Journal of Gender Studies

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