‘This Double Voice’: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England

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The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-15 Female Authority and Authorization Strategies in Early Modern Europe....Pages 16-40 ‘In a mirrour clere’: Protestantism and Politics in Anne Lok’s Miserere mei Deus....Pages 41-60 ‘Formd into words by your divided lips’: Women, Rhetoric and the Ovidian Tradition....Pages 61-87 The Voices of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne and Lady Bacon....Pages 88-102 Old Wives’ Tales Retold: the mutations of the Fairy Queen....Pages 103-122 Giving Time to Women: the Eternizing Project in Early Modern England....Pages 123-141 The ‘Double Voice’ of Renaissance Equity and the Literary Voices of Women....Pages 142-163 ‘For Worth, Not Weakness, Makes in Use but One’: Literary Dialogues in an English Renaissance Family....Pages 164-184 ‘Whom the Lord with love affecteth’: Gender and the Religious Poet, 1590–1633....Pages 185-207 Ejaculation or Virgin Birth? The Gendering of the Religious Lyric in the Interregnum....Pages 208-229 Unfettered Organs: the Polemical Voices of Katherine Philips....Pages 230-248 A Voice for Hermaphroditical Education....Pages 249-269 Back Matter....Pages 270-280