Broschiertes Buch

Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration

Beschreibung

This book explores the collaborative practices - both literary and material - that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women's texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women's studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women's writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital "A" authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or femalepriority in the production of early modern texts, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration investigates the role that gender has played - and might continue to play - in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women's literary history.

Autor

Patricia Pender is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing (Palgrave, 2014).

Produktdetails

• Early Modern Literature in History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-86473-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9783319864730
• ISBN-10: 3319864734
• Artikelnr.: 55127303

Rezensionen

"This is a groundbreaking collection, which demonstrates the multiple (and sometimes wonderfully unexpected) ways in which early modern women authored texts." (Paula Mcquade, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 15 (1), 2020)