Women, reading, and the cultural politics of early modern England

Description:

"Edith Snook here makes an original contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period. She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices. Finally, because the activity of reading is a site of cultural conflict - over gender, social and educational status, and the religious or national affiliation of readers - Snook brings to light how these women, when they write about reading, are engaged in structuring the cultural politics of early modern England."--Jacket.

subjects: Books and reading,  Books and reading in literature,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Sex role in literature,  Women,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  English prose literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  English literature, women authors,  Women, great britain,  Écrits de femmes anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Femmes et littérature,  Histoire,  Femmes,  Vie intellectuelle,  Livres et lecture dans la littérature,  Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Early modern

Places: England

Times: 16th century,  17th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700