Full Description
This encyclopedia on early modern women's writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by or attributed to women, written in or translated into English, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Europe, and the Americas. It is designed to provide coverage of six established chronological periods: - Early Tudor (1526-1557), Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-1625), Caroline (1625-1649), English Civil War & Interregnum (1642-1660), and Restoration (1660-1688). With over 400 entries, the encyclopedia is organised through broad theoretical, material, generic, and thematic categories, as well as by period.
Contents
Genres: Prose.- Genres: Poetry.- Genres: Poetry.- Materialities: Manuscript.- Period: Jacobean.- Period: English Civil War and Interregnum.- Period: Restoration.- Transmission.- The Material Book: Materialities.- Period: Early Tudor (1526-1557).- International Contexts: National Traditions and Transnational Networks.- Period: Elizabethan (1558-1603).- Materialities: Print.- Theories: Position and Debates.- Sites of Production.- Period: Caroline.- Cultural Contexts.
