Genre and women's life writing in early modern England /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eckerle, Julie A., 1971-, Dowd, Michelle M., 1975-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
Series:	Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subjects:	English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Literary form > History. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Women and literature > Great Britain.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

"Free and easy as ones discourse"? : genre and self-expression in the poems and letters of early modern Englishwomen / Helen Wilcox
Domestic papers : manuscript culture and early modern women's life writing / Margaret J. M. Ezell
"Many hands hands" : writing the self in early modern women's recipe books / Catherine Field
Serial identity : history, gender, and form in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford / Megan Matchinske
Merging the secular and the spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett's memoirs / Mary Ellen Lamb
Prefacing texts, authorizing authors, and constructing selves : the preface as autobiographical space / Julie A. Eckerle
Structures of piety in Elizabeth Richardson's Legacie / Michelle M. Dowd
Intersubjectivity, intertextuality, and form in the self-writings of Margaret Cavendish / Elspeth Graham
Margaret Cavendish's domestic experiment / Lara Dodds
"That All the World May Know " : women's "defense-narratives" and the early novel / Josephine Donovan.