Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.
Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.
Julie Campbell (English, Eastern Illinois University) is the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini's La Mirtilla (2002) and the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (2006). Her research focuses on Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature with an emphasis on Continental and English women writers. Anne Larsen (French, Hope College) has published articles and book chapters on French Renaissance and seventeenth-century women writers and is the editor and translator of From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of the Dames des Roches (2006). She is currently investigating the writings of Anna Maria van Schurman on women's education.
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Contents: Foreword Diana Robin; Introduction Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen; Part I Continental Epistolary Communities: Letters make the family: Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the 17th century Susan Broomhall; Letters and lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and convent culture in Seicento Venice Meredith K. Ray; Women letters and heresy in 16th-century Italy: Guilia Gonzaga's heterodox epistolary network Camilla Russell. Part II Cross-Channel Textual Communities and Uses of Print: The gender of the book: Jeanne de Marnef edits Pernette du Guillet Leah Chang; ' Some improvement to their spiritual and eternal state': women's prayers in the 17th-century Church of England Sharon Arnoult; The public life of Anne Vaughan Lock: her reception in England and Scotland Susan M. Felch; Esther Inglis linguist calligrapher miniaturist and Christian humanist Sarah Gwyneth Ross; Courtliness piety and politics: emblem books by Georgette de Montenay Anna Roemers Visscher and Esther Inglis Martine van Elk. Part III Constructions of Transnational Literary Circles: Crossing international borders: tutors and the transmission of young women's writing Julie D. Campbell; Journeying across borders: Catherine des Roches's catalog of modern women intellectuals Anne R. Larsen; Forming familles d'alliance: intellectual kinship in the republic of letters Carol Pal; Afterword: critical distance Margaret J.M. Ezell; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Foreword Diana Robin; Introduction Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen; Part I Continental Epistolary Communities: Letters make the family: Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the 17th century Susan Broomhall; Letters and lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and convent culture in Seicento Venice Meredith K. Ray; Women letters and heresy in 16th-century Italy: Guilia Gonzaga's heterodox epistolary network Camilla Russell. Part II Cross-Channel Textual Communities and Uses of Print: The gender of the book: Jeanne de Marnef edits Pernette du Guillet Leah Chang; ' Some improvement to their spiritual and eternal state': women's prayers in the 17th-century Church of England Sharon Arnoult; The public life of Anne Vaughan Lock: her reception in England and Scotland Susan M. Felch; Esther Inglis linguist calligrapher miniaturist and Christian humanist Sarah Gwyneth Ross; Courtliness piety and politics: emblem books by Georgette de Montenay Anna Roemers Visscher and Esther Inglis Martine van Elk. Part III Constructions of Transnational Literary Circles: Crossing international borders: tutors and the transmission of young women's writing Julie D. Campbell; Journeying across borders: Catherine des Roches's catalog of modern women intellectuals Anne R. Larsen; Forming familles d'alliance: intellectual kinship in the republic of letters Carol Pal; Afterword: critical distance Margaret J.M. Ezell; Bibliography; Index.
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