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The female baroque in early modern English literary culture : from Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn / Gary Waller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 9.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048551118
  • 9048551110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9003 23
LOC classification:
  • PR421
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.[-].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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.[-].

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