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Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
052188098X, 9780521880985, 9780511355660
Open Library ID
OL10438342M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1801783 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
277\277
Topic
History
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined, visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how women's writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain's Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of the changes that were refashioning that world, the book suggests that memory is itself the textual site where the domestic echoes of national crisis can most insistently be heard. Offering readings of the work of poets who contributed to the oral traditions of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and analysing poetry, fiction and life-writings by well known and less familiar writers such as Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson and Aphra Behn, this book explores how women's writing of memory gave expression to the everyday, intimate consequences of the major geopolitical changes that took place in the British Atlantic world in the seventeenth century.

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