Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era / edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk.

Other author Gilleir, Anke.
Other author Montoya, Alicia.
Other author Dijk, Suzanna van.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxvi, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
European literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600. --History and criticism.
European literature--17th century. --History and criticism.
European literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--Europe. --History.

SeriesIntersections, 1568-1811 ; v. 16
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) v. 16. ^A790215
Contents Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya -- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010006228
ISBN9789004184633 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004184635 (hardback : alk. paper)

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