By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use
of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in
writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive
contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and
revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in
early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life
writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England
while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and
narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering
women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most
notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings
of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography
and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the
complex relationships between literary forms and early modern
women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to
make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical
writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship
on early modern women.
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