The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print : Counterbalancing the Canon

Many distinctive features of the English Renaissance―its lateness relative to the Renaissance in southern Europe, its adaptations to the wide swings of the Tudor and Stuart political, economic, cultural, and religious programs, its generally sober, religious tone, its governance for a stretch of approximately fifty years by a woman―are widely recognized. But the consequences of these peculiarities for English women are less familiar.The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print attempts to investigate these consequences by examining cultural products of Tudor and Stuart England. Focusing chiefly on literary texts, the essays in this collection correlate writings by men that have traditionally been contained within the literary canon with writings by women that have traditionally been marginalized. The essays in this collection treat cultural documents in ways that necessarily raise and address questions about English Renaissance politics, religion, and economics. Many of the gendered assumptions of the English Renaissance are highlighted by this counterbalancing of representations of Renaissance women by contemporary men with writings (on related topics) by Renaissance women. Many distinctive features of the English Renaissanceits lateness relative to the Renaissance in southern Europe, its adaptations to the wide swings of the Tudor and Stuart political, economic, cultural, and religious programs, its generally sober, religious tone, its governance for a stretch of approximately fifty years by a womanare widely recognized. But the consequences of these peculiarities for English women are less familiar. The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print attempts to investigate these consequences by examining cultural products of Tudor and Stuart England. Focusing chiefly on literary texts, the essays in this collection correlate writings by men that have traditionally been contained within the literary canon with writings by women that have traditionally been marginalized. The essays in this collection treat cultural documents in ways that necessarily raise and address questions about English Renaissance politics, religion, and economics. Many of the gendered assumptions of the English Renaissance are highlighted by this counterbalancing of representations of Renaissance women by contemporary men with writings (on related topics) by Renaissance women. Counterattacks On The Bayter Of Women / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Power Of Integrity In Massinger's Women / Ira Clark -- Maydes Are Simple, Some Men Say / Gail Reitenbach -- Strike All That Look Upon With Mar[b]le / Abbe Blum -- Sin And The Politics Of Penitence / Anne M. Haselkorn -- Style And Gender In Elizabeth Cary's Edward Ii / Tina Krontiris -- Representing Political Androgyny / Constance Jordan -- Queen's Two Bodies And The Divided Emperor / Clare Kinney -- Radigund Revisited / Josephine A. Roberts -- Griselda, Renaissance Woman / Judith Bronfman -- Puritan Preaching And The Politics Of The Family / R. Valerie Lucas -- His Wife's Prayers And Meditations / Betty S. Travitsky -- To The Angell Spirit / Beth Wynne Fisken -- Unknown Continent / Margaret Anne Mclaren. Rewriting Lyric Fictions / Naomi J. Miller -- Feminine Endings / Maureen Quilligan -- Countess Of Pembroke And Gendered Reading / Gary F. Waller -- Current Bibliography Of English Women Writers, 1500-1640 / Elaine V. Beilin. Edited By Anne M. Haselkorn And Betty S. Travitsky. Includes Bibliographies And Index. Explores the interrelated subjects of women's visibility/invisibility, empowerment/suppression and voice/silencing and also documents the efforts of individual women who engaged, not necessarily consciously, in the creation and recreation of a female cultural presence.