Early Modern Women's Writing
Martine van Elk
Broschiertes Buch

Early Modern Women's Writing

Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic

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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women's rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female lite...