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.
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'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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In refusing to share the patriarchal historiography, Tina Krontiris starts her four-chapter- book, with surveying the history of women writers from the "Early Renaissance Period" to the modern time from eclectic feminist and Marxist lenses. Through focusing on women's struggle to gain recognition and break the mirror that has always reflected them as mere subordinates to men, and, thus, relegating them to be mere objects of their desires and hopes, Krontiris strongly celebrates this struggle that, according to her, has debunked the perpetuating patriarchal discourses of religion, capitalism, authorship, and literary production.
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When Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own was published in 1929 virtually nothing was known about women writers of the early modern period in England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist pamphlets, feminine conduct, early humanists, sexual modesty, other women writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Herbert, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Lady Mary, Isabella Whitney, Countess of Pembroke, Lady Cumberland, Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus, Lady Cary, Margaret Tyler, Sweet Nosegay, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Philip Sidney, Ann Jones, Lady Margaret, Betty Travitsky, Cary's Mariam, Mary Ellen Lamb, Mary Sidney, The Letter, Abraham Fraunce, Henry Cary, Queen Isabel, Renaissance Englishwomen New!
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When Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own was published in 1929 virtually nothing was known about women writers of the early modern period in England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist pamphlets, feminine conduct, early humanists, sexual modesty, other women writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Herbert, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Lady Mary, Isabella Whitney, Countess of Pembroke, Lady Cumberland, Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus, Lady Cary, Margaret Tyler, Sweet Nosegay, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Philip Sidney, Ann Jones, Lady Margaret, Betty Travitsky, Cary's Mariam, Mary Ellen Lamb, Mary Sidney, The Letter, Abraham Fraunce, Henry Cary, Queen Isabel, Renaissance Englishwomen New!
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- The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen in the Renaissance by Betty Travitsky on 6 pages
- The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth by Josephine A. Roberts on 6 pages
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance by Ruth Kelso on 4 pages
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- Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 by Helen Wilcox on 5 pages
- Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Megan Matchinske in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jill Phillips Ingram in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Eve Rachele Sanders in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beyond Spectacle: Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators by Juliette Merritt on page 98, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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