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Author:

Wynne-Davies, Marion.

Title:

Women writers and familial discourse in the English Renaissance : relative values / Marion Wynne-Davies.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 209 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Family in literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
Family--England--History--16th century.
Family--England--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-199) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : women writers and familial discourse in the English Renaissance -- "Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father" : the Roper/Basset line and the lives of Thomas More -- "Sory coumfortlesse orphanes" : the Rastell/Heywood line -- Worthy of their blood and their vocation : the More/Cresacre line -- Representations of relations on the political stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley household -- "As I, for one, who thus my habits change" : Mary Wroth and the abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert familial discourse -- Sisters and brothers : divided sibling identity in the Cary family -- Desire, chastity and rape in the Cavendish familial discourse.

Series:

Early modern literature in history

ISBN:

9781403986412 (hbk. : alk. paper)
140398641X (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007016439

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)