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Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (Studies in the English Renaissance)
 
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"This is a fine collection of essays about a poet who deserves her new-found fame." -- Choice



"Important because it offers a portrait of the emerging official Aemilia Lanyer now in the process of being absorbed into our teaching and our understanding of literary history." -- Early Modern Literary Studies



"This excellent volume is the first anthology of scholarship and criticism on an important poet and provides many rich cultural contexts for Lanyer's work." -- Elaine V. Beilin



"Lanyer should not be taught without this varied collection of important essays." -- Notes and Queries



"A thoroughly high quality collection of essays that allows the reader to consider a variety of scholarly questions about the importance of Lanyer." -- Renaissance Quarterly



"The essays' diverse perspectives on recurring issues create a productive dialogue across the volume and highlight the richness of Lanyer's texts." -- Seventeenth-Century News



"Many of these essays break new ground and, together, they examine the whole of Lanyer's oeuvre from theoretically and historically informed perspectives." -- Years Work in English Studies



"Succeeds in altering the context in which we read the largely male literature of the period." -- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance


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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (June 24, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0813120497
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813120492
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (Studies in the English Renaissance) (Hardcover)
If you don't know who Aemilia Lanyer was, please read about her or better yet read her works. She lived in London during the 1600s and was of Jewish-Italian descent. She became the mistress to Lord Chamberlain and may well have been Shakespeare's "dark lady". The most amazing and fabulous thing she did was publishe poems. Her poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" is a bold, well written poem and defends women of negative stereotypes which have been forced upon them since Eve. In "Eve's Apology," this portion of the poem is spoken from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's wife, who is begging for the life of Christ. She explores who is really guilty in original sin.

The essays in this book written about Lanyer and her works tell of her life and poetry and sheds new light on gender and class identity. Her male contemporaries at the time were John Donne, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.

The experts who write the essays for this book have done their research and make good, convincing arguments. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to understand Lanyer more thoroughly.
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