Writing the Way Out: Inheritance and Appropriation in Aemilia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, Mary (Sidney) Herbert and Mary Wroth - Softcover

Lange, Ann Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034306865 ISBN 13: 9783034306867

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011

Synopsis

In the early modern period, there have been a vigorous debate in the public arena on the nature of women and their place in society. For instance, most women had been excluded from inheritance.
The author of this work is shedding light on how the notion of inheritance intrudes into the literature produced by women of the period.
She analyses the tropes of inheritance and appropriation as they are evidenced in the works of women from the upper strata of society – women such as Mary (Sidney) Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, and Lady Mary Wroth, both scions of the renowned Sidney family – and also those produced by those from lower down in the social spectrum, such as Aemilia Lanyer and Isabella Whitney.

About this title

About the Author

The author earned her PhD in English Literature from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in 2010. She is currently working on a joint project to produce a scholarly edition of supplements, continuations and modernisations of Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3034306865
• ISBN 13: 9783034306867
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 375