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Oppositional Voices - Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance (Paperback, Revised)
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Oppositional Voices - Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance (Paperback, Revised)
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A study of women writers in the late Elizabethan period. Until the
early 1980s it was generally assumed that women did not write any
books during the Renaissance. Virginia Woolf wondered why "no woman
wrote a word of extraordinary literature when every other man, it
seemed, was capable of song or sonnet". The women discussed in this
book "did" write some of that "extraordinary literature". Ignoring
Renaissance society's injunction that women should confine
themselves to religious compositions, they wrote poetry, drama and
romantic fiction. They even voiced opposition to certain oppressive
ideas and stereotypes. Yet, as this study suggests, what these
authors finally say depended greatly on the fact that they were
women writing in a culture inimical to female creative activity.
This work shows how gender ideology intertwined with economics and
social class, as well as with literary and linguistic conventions,
to shape women's writing of the period.
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