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Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

Matchinske, Megan
Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 26

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ISBN10: 052103521X
ISBN13: 9780521035217
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2006
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated self, to civil war perceptions of the self as a site of civil control. Each centers on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, illustrating the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women.

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