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Title:

Early modern Englishwomen testing ideas / edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

viii, 147 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
Women--England--Intellectual life.
Women philosophers--Great Britain.
Women dramatists, English.
Women novelists, English.

Other Authors:

Wallwork, Jo.
Salzman, Paul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index.

Contents:

Narrative person, perspective, and voice in Eliza Haywood's The adventures of Eovaai / Mary Astell's Machiavellian moment? : politics and feminism in Moderation truly stated / Joanna Fowler. That you may [be] ... as wise as angels : the religious foundations of Mary Astell's Proposal for the ladies, parts. 1 and 2 / Michal Michelson -- Disruptive behaviour in the making of science : Cavendish and the community of seventeenth-century science / Jo Wallwork -- The magnetic attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton / L.E. Semler -- Women and drama. Yes, and : Margaret Cavendish, the passions, and hermaphrodite agency / Alexandra G. Bennett -- Virginian culture and experimental genre in Aphra Behn's The widow ranter / David McInnis -- Politics and intrigue. La femme forte : Katherine Philips and the politics of her Dublin writings, 1662-3 / Rosalinde Schut -- Narrative person, perspective, and voice in Eliza Haywood's The adventures of Eovaai / Joanna Fowler.

ISBN:

140941969X (alk. paper)
9781409419693 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664353123

LCCN:

2010038088

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)