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This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within genre.
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'Smith shows that precedents of published women's writing can be as inhibiting as enabling, and therefore disrupts any smoothly progressive model of women's literary history.' - Times Literary Supplement
'Rosalind Smith has produced a well-organized and effective work, with much to recommend it...The strength of the work lies not only in its clearly defined remit but also in Smith's ability to range effortlessly from close textual analysis to a consideration of the wider context for these works, and to dovetail literary criticism with historical insight.' - Lucinda Becker, Modern Language Review
About the author
ROSALIND SMITH is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published articles on gender and poetry in the early modern period and is preparing a monograph on Marian textual practice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Absence
Authors: Rosalind Smith
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513686
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9122-5Published: 27 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54268-0Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51368-6Published: 27 September 2005
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 169
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Gender Studies, Classical and Antique Literature