The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women
with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth.
Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a
woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but
it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to
temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in
the act of creation.
Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the
works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and
Reformation, among them Marie Dentiere, a Swiss evangelical
reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during
her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian
aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her
comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Helisenne de Crenne, a
French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the Renaissance
feminist, writing both as novelist and as champion of her sex;
Helene Kottanner, Austrian chambermaid to Queen Elizabeth of
Hungary whose memoirs recall her daring theft of the Holy Crown of
Saint Stephen for her esteemed mistress; and Lady Mary Sidney
Wroth, the first Englishwoman known to write a full-length work of
fiction and compose a significant body of secular poetry.
Offering a seldom seen counterpoint to literature written by
men, "Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation" presents
prose and poetry that have never before appeared in English, as
well as writings that have rarely been available to the
nonspecialist. The women whose writings are included here are
united by a keen awareness of the social limitations placed upon
their creative potential, of the strained relationship between
their gender and their work. This concern invests their writings
with a distinctive voice--one that carries the echoes of a male
aesthetic while boldly declaring battle against it.
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