TY - BOOK AU - Waller,Gary F. TI - The female baroque in early modern English literary culture: from Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn T2 - Gendering the late medieval and early modern world SN - 9789048551118 AV - PR421 U1 - 820.9003 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, KW - Behn, Aphra, KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Baroque literature KW - Women and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Litt�erature baroque KW - Histoire et critique KW - Femmes et litt�erature KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 17e si�ecle KW - Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800 KW - bicssc KW - British and Irish history KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - Great Britain KW - Georgian Era (1714-1837) KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Early modern KW - Baroque KW - Female Baroque KW - Julia Kristeva KW - Women's writing KW - early modern England KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction and Acknowledgements --; 1. The Labyrinthine Baroque --; 2. The Female Baroque --; 3. Catholic Female Baroque --; 4. Protestant Baroque --; 5. The Female Baroque in Court and Country --; 6. Lady Mary Wroth : The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus --; 7. From Baroque to Enlightenment: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn --; Postscript --; About the Author --; Index N2 - The Female Baroque is a contribution to the revival since the 1980s of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva's study of Teresa of Avila, that 'the secrets of Baroque civilization are female'. [-]The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics - narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the Female Baroque is developed in detail. Attention is then given particularly to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, the latter two whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.[-] UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2453345 ER -