Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance |
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Author:
Elaine V. Beilin
By Princeton Univ Pr
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Writing Women in Jacobean England
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Product Description
"Redeeming Eve is an introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches. . . . [Beilin] shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by restriction to pious subject matter, by the doctrine that only silent women are virtuous, by criticism that praised women as patrons or muses and ignored their writing, and above all by crippling educational theories. . . . The interesting chapters on Anne Askew, Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, and Mary Wroth are alone well worth the purchase price."--Linda Woodbridge, Renaissance Quarterly "[Beilin's] approach is wise and fruitful, shunning a radical, imperialistic feminist criticism that would seek to make these Renaissance women feminists. . . . [The book] serves the purpose of an excellent introduction to a lively topic."--Virginia Quarterly Review "[Beilin] engages the writings of Renaissance women with an understanding and appreciation that render them at once more accessible and more significant. [Her] approach is literary, tactful, and sensitive to tonal and psychic nuance."--Judith H. Anderson, Recent Studies in the English Renaissance
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a Must-Read for students of Renaissance and Women studies, 2001-05-15
In one of the most seminal book in the growing scholarship of women writers of the English Renaissance, Beilin argues for the success of a plethora of women writers in playing the role of Eves in their literary production so as to gain a respectable space for authorship that was monopolized by male culture and rules. It is mainly through the culturally endorsed metaphor of "the redeeming eve" that women writers such as Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary wroth, to name but few, were given a literary and creative space. The importance of this book lies in Beilin's insistence on women's acceptance to integrate into the patriarchal culture through writing what was acceptable, an acceptance that, though, seems consolidatory of the patriarchal culture, was, indeed, subversive and, even, revolutionary.
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780691015002
ISBN: 0691015007
Label: Princeton Univ Pr
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: 1990-07
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Studio: Princeton Univ Pr |
