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Attending to women in early modern England
- Title
- Attending to women in early modern England / edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F. Seeff ; advisory editors, Susan Amussen [and others].
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1994], ©1994.
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- Description
- 382 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the University of Maryland at College Park. Edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F.
- Seeff in collaboration with a national committee of scholars, the book focuses on the interdisciplinary study of women in early modern England, addressing such areas of scholarly concern as what new research concepts can guide scholarship on early modern women? How were the public and private identities of these women constructed? What were the similarities between visible and invisible women in early modern England? How can - and should - studies on early modern women transform the classroom?
- Subjects
- Women and literature > England > History > 16th century > Congresses
- Women in literature > Congresses
- Women and literature > England > History > 17th century > Congresses
- Women > England > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > Congresses
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
- Women > England > History > Modern period, 1600- > Congresses
- Women in art > Congresses
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Congresses
- Note
- Papers from a symposium held Nov. 8-10, 1990 at the University of Maryland at College Park, sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-369) and index.
- Contents
- Executive Director's Preface / Adele F. Seeff -- Introduction / Betty S. Travitsky -- "O Daughter Heare": Reconstructing the Lives of Aristocratic Englishwomen / Margaret P. Hannay -- Positioning Women in Visual Convention: The Case of Elizabeth I / Nanette Salomon -- Response: Attending to Early Modern Women in an Interdisciplinary Way / Judith M. Bennett -- Unpicking the Tapestry: The Scholar of Women's History as Penelope among Her Suitors / Lisa Jardine -- The Message from Marcade: Parental Death in Tudor and Stuart England / Heather Dubrow -- Eulogies for Women: Public Testimony of Their Godly Example and Leadership / Retha M. Warnicke -- Response: Private Lives, Public Performance, and Rites of Passage / David Cressy -- Elizabeth I and Alice Balstone: Gender, Class, and the Exceptional Woman in Early Modern England / Susan Dwyer Amussen -- The Paradox of Mimesis: High Art/Low Art in the Imagery of Early Modern Europe / Keith Moxey -- Response: Attending to Literacy / Margaret Ferguson.
- Remodeling the Landlord's House: Ownership of the Canon / Jean R. Brink -- Appendix: Responses to a Pedagogy Survey / Jean R. Brink -- Attending to Renaissance Women: A Script and Its Evolution / Catherine Schuler and Sharon Ammen.
- ISBN
- 0874135192 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 93045261
- OCLC
- 29427884
- ocm29427884
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries