Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford English Monographs)

royalist Women Writers Aims To Put Women Back On The Map Of Seventeenth-century Royalist Literature From Which They Have Habitually Been Marginalized. Looking In Detail At The Work Of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, And Aphra Behn, It Argues That Their Writings Inaugurate A More Assertive Model Of The Englishwoman As Literary Author, Which Is Crucially Enabled By Their Royalist Affiliations. Chalmers Reveals New Political Sub-texts In The Three Writers' Work And Shows How These Inflect Their Representations Of Gender. In This Way Both Their Texts And Manner Of Presenting Themselves As Authors Emerges As Freshly Pertinent To Their Male And Female Royalist Contemporaries For Whom Supporting Them Could Be An Act Of Political Self-definition. "Royalist Women Writers puts women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugur a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerge as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries, for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition."--Jacket Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers'work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. - ;Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cave Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, this work argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations