Texts From The Querelle 1616 1640

Author : Pamela J. Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351895514

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Texts from the Querelle, 1616–1640 by Pamela J. Benson Pdf

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.

Author : Pamela J. Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351895545

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Texts from the Querelle, 1521–1615 by Pamela J. Benson Pdf

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume one includes texts from 1521 through to 1615.

Author : Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350020689

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Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 by Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown Pdf

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas were central to understanding society and politics as well as the ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society. This is a vital study for anyone interested in understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.

Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041054

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman Pdf

Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.

Author : Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027258441

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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva Pdf

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.

Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004432154

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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives by Martha Moffitt Peacock Pdf

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : Jessica L. Malay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136961069

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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance by Jessica L. Malay Pdf

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient Greek and Roman cultures, as well as the widespread dissemination of prophecies attributed the sibyls that circulated through the oral tradition. Sibylline prophecy of the Middle Ages served as another conduit through which sibylline authority, fame, and familiarity was transmitted and enhanced. Writers as disparate as John Foxe, John Dee, Thomas Churchyard, John Fletcher, Thomas Heywood, Jane Seager, John Lyly, An Collins, William Shakespeare, and many draw upon this shared sibylline tradition to produce particular and specific meanings in their writing. This book explores the many identities, the many faces, of the prophetic sibyls as they appear in the works of English Renaissance writers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180426

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCR:31210020835177

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty S. Travitsky,Anne Lake Prescott,Patrick Cullen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Company
Page : 3496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754653056

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The Early Modern Englishwoman by Betty S. Travitsky,Anne Lake Prescott,Patrick Cullen Pdf

Essential Works, Series III, Part Two is designed to make available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings both by women and for and about them. The set comprises the following eight titles:Volume 1: Texts from the Querelle, 1521-1615Volume 2: Texts from the Querelle, 1616-1640Volume 3: Texts from the Querelle, 1641-1701 (1)Volume 4: Texts from the Querelle, 1641-1701 (2)Volume 5: Texts on Prostitution, 1592-1633Volume 6: Texts on Prostitution, 1635-1700Volume 7: Women and Witchcraft in Popular Literature, c.1560-1715Volume 8: A Woman's Answer is Never to Seek: Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526-1635

Author : Armel Dubois-Nayt,Marie-Élisabeth Henneau,Rotraud von Kulessa
Publisher : PU Saint-Etienne
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : UIUC:30112119028105

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Revisiter la querelle des femmes by Armel Dubois-Nayt,Marie-Élisabeth Henneau,Rotraud von Kulessa Pdf

Dernier des quatre volumes consacrés à la gigantesque polémique qui agita la France durant de longs siècles sur la place et le rôle des femmes dans la société, ce recueil d’articles se concentre sur les développements de cette controverse en Europe. Il mesure l’influence de la France – considérée comme le berceau et l’épicentre de la Querelle – sur les autres nations, notamment à travers la diffusion d’oeuvres d’une importance majeure, comme La Cité des dames de Christine de Pizan. Mais il déplace également cette problématique, en étudiant le rôle joué par des œuvres phares issues d’autres pays, comme le célébrissime De mulieribus claris de l’Italien Boccacio, en s’intéressant à l’adaptation de la controverse aux contextes locaux. Attentif à ses modalités d’expression, il parcourt les supports traditionnels empruntés par les protagonistes, tels les traités philosophiques et politiques ou les dictionnaires de femmes célèbres, mais il met également à jour d’autres genres moins convenus, comme les autobiographies, les correspondances, les romans et autres discours fictionnels, l’histoire de la musique... Enfin, il révèle l’existence de la Querelle dans des lieux plus inattendus, comme l’espace clos des couvents ou le discours des mystiques.

Author : Zachary Lesser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521842522

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Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication by Zachary Lesser Pdf

A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.

Author : Betty Travitsky,Adele F. Seeff
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0874135494

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Attending to Women in Early Modern England by Betty Travitsky,Adele F. Seeff Pdf

This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the University of Maryland at College Park. Edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F.

Author : Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0674962427

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Writing Women in Jacobean England by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski Pdf

When was feminism born - in the 1960s, or in the 1660s? For England, one might answer: the early decades of the seventeenth century. James I was King of England, and women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate, and silent. Some, however, were not, and these are the women who interest Barbara Lewalski - those who, as queens and petitioners, patrons and historians and poets, took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England. Setting out to show how these women wrote themselves into their culture, Lewalski rewrites Renaissance history to include some of its most compelling - and neglected - voices. As a culture dominated by a powerful Queen gave way to the rule of a patriarchal ideologue, a woman's subjection to father and husband came to symbolize the subjection of all English people to their monarch, and all Christians to God. Remarkably enough, it is in this repressive Jacobean milieu that we first hear Englishwomen's own voices in some number. Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, and Mary Wroth published original poems, dramas, and prose of considerable scope and merit; others inscribed their thoughts and experiences in letters and memoirs. Queen Anne used the court masque to assert her place in palace politics, while Princess Elizabeth herself stood as a symbol of resistance to Jacobean patriarchy. By looking at these women through their works, Lewalski documents the flourishing of a sense of feminine identity and expression in spite of - or perhaps because of - the constraints of the time. The result is a fascinating sampling of Jacobean women's lives and works, restored to their rightful place in literary historyand cultural politics. In these women's voices and perspectives, Lewalski identifies an early challenge to the dominant culture - and an ongoing challenge to our understanding of the Renaissance world.

Author : Eva Del Soldato,Andrea Rizzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351380317

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City, Court, Academy by Eva Del Soldato,Andrea Rizzi Pdf

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the interplay and dynamic exchange of languages in the Italian peninsula, from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it examines the flexible linguistic practices of both the social and intellectual elite, and the men and women from the street. The point of departure of this project is the realization that most of the early modern speakers and authors demonstrate strong self-awareness as multilingual communicators. From the foul-mouthed gondolier to the learned humanist, language choice and use were carefully performed, and often justified, in order to overcome (or affirm) linguistic and social differences. The urban social spaces, the princely court, and the elite centres of learning such as universities and academies all shared similar concerns about the value, effectiveness, and impact of languages. As the contributions in this book demonstrate, early modern communicators — including gondoliers, preachers, humanists, architects, doctors of medicine, translators, and teachers—made explicit and argued choices about their use of language. The textual and oral performance of languages—and self-aware discussions on languages—consolidated the identity of early modern Italian multilingual communities.