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The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture

From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn

Gary Waller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2020
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-143-1 (ISBN)

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The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women’s writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s. Its originality is twofold: it links women’s writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva’s study of Teresa of Avila, that ‘the secrets of Baroque civilization are female’. The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics — narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the book is developed in detail. Particular attention is given to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, and finally Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.

Gary Waller is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Emeritus, Purchase College, SUNY. His books include English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century, The Sidney Family Romance, Walsingham and the English Imagination, The Annunciation: A Cultural History, The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Popular Culture, and The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture.

Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Labyrinthine Baroque
Chapter 2: The Female Baroque
Chapter 3: Catholic Baroque
Chapter 4: Protestant Baroque
Chapter 5: The Female Baroque in Court and Country
Chapter 6: Mary Wroth's Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Chapter 7: From Baroque to Enlightenment: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
Postscript
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	94-6372-143-6 / 9463721436
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-143-1 / 9789463721431
Zustand	Neuware