Isbn: 9780803299979 - women's life writing and early modern ireland (women and gender in the early modern world) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. This first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women s life writing in a specifically Irish context provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts. By making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides anoriginalperspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focuson seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specificallyIrish context.By shifting the focus away from England-even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English-and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of theiressays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin.The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde-women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland-also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers' construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.…