Texts from the Querelle 1616-1640: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women (2) - Couverture rigide

Livre 3 sur 4: The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two

Benson, Pamela J.

 
9780754631149: Texts from the Querelle 1616-1640: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women (2)
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ISBN 10 : 0754631141 ISBN 13 : 9780754631149
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pamela J. Benson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754631141
ISBN 13 
9780754631149
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
600
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