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Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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A study of the representation of reading in early modern
Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of
textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of
reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books,
poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways
in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early
seventeenth-century England. Among the authors and texts considered
are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The
Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing;
Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Aemelia
Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; and Mary Wroth, The First Part of
the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Attentive to contiguities
between representations of reading in print and reading practices
found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace
book belonging to Anne Cornwallis (Folger Folger MS V.a.89) and a
Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes
(Bod. MS Don. e.17). Edith Snook here makes an original
contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing
reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period.
She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the
dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and
investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas
about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in
devotional and literary reading practices. Finally, because the
activity of reading is a site of cultural conflict - over gender,
social and educational status, and the religious or national
affiliation of readers - Snook brings to light how these women,
when they write about reading, are engaged in structuring the
cultural politics of early modern England.
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