Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance Book

Oppositional Voices is an invigorating study of women writers in the late Elizabethan period. 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. Oppositional Voices powerfully 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.Read More

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  • 0415162637
  • 9780415162630
  • Tina Krontiris
  • 10 April 1997
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • 1
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