Early Modern Women And Transnational Communities Of Letters (women And Gender In The Early Modern World)

Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities. An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's participation in literary cultures, this essay collection concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures from several countries, ranging from Italy and France to the Low Countries and England. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers; the collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and exploring familial, political, and religious communities. Taken together, these essays offer fresh ways of reading early modern women's writing that consider such issues as the changing cultural geographies of the early modern world, women's bilingualism and multilingualism, and women's sense of identity mediated by local, regional, national, and transnational affiliations and conflicts. Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I: CONTINENTAL EPISTOLARY COMMUNITIES -- 1 Letters Make the Family: Nassau Family Correspondence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century -- 2 Letters and Lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and Convent Culture in Seicento Venice -- 3 Women, Letters, and Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Giulia Gonzaga's Heterodox Epistolary Network -- PART II: CROSS-CHANNEL TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES AND USES OF PRINT 4 The Gender of the Book: Jeanne de Marnef Edits Pernette du Guillet -- 5 ""Some Improvement to their Spiritual and Eternal State"": Women's Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England -- 6 The Public Life of Anne Vaughan Lock: Her Reception in England and Scotland -- 7 Esther Inglis: Linguist, Calligrapher, Miniaturist, and Christian Humanist -- 8 Courtliness, Piety, and Politics: Emblem Books by Georgette de Montenay, Anna Roemers Visscher, and Esther Inglis -- PART III: CONSTRUCTIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL LITERARY CIRCLES 9 Crossing International Borders: Tutors and the Transmission of Young Women's Writing -- 10 Journeying Across Borders: Catherine des Roches's Catalog of Modern Women Intellectuals -- 11 Forming families d'alliance: Intellectual Kinship in the Republic of Letters -- Afterword: Critical Distance -- Bibliography -- Index Edited By Julie D. Campbell, Anne R. Larsen ; With A Foreword By Diana Robin ; And An Afterword By Margaret J.m. Ezell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.