Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation

Name: Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation
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ISBN: 9780820308661

ISBN-10: 0820308668

ISBN-13: 9780820308661

Edition: 1987

Authors: Katharina M. Wilson

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The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation.Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentiere, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 7/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 680
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Phyllis R. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University. Katharina M. Wilson is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Linda A. McMillin is a professor in the Department of History at Susquehanna University.