Description: Desiring Women Writing : English Renaissance Examples, Paperback by Goldberg, Jonathan, ISBN 0804729832, ISBN-13 9780804729833, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In a set of readings ranging from early-sixteenth- through late-seventeenth-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in their culture and by their articulation of a variety of desires (including the desire to write) not bound by the usual prescriptions that limited women. Throughout, possibilities for these writers are seen to arise from the conjunction of their gender with their status as aristocrats or from their proximity to centers of power, even if this involves the "debasement" of prostitution for Lanyer or the perils of the marketplace for Behn. The author argues that moves outside the restriction of domesticity opened up opportunities for affirming female sexuality and for a range of desires not confined to marriage and procreation - desires that move across race in Oroonoko; that imagine female same-gender relations, often in proximity to male desires directed at other men; that implicate incestuous desires, even inflecting them anally, as in Roper's Devout Treatise.
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Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Publication Name: Desiring Women Writing : English Renaissance Examples
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Women's Studies, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Jonathan Goldberg
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
