Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght

Name: Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght
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ISBN: 9780195086157

ISBN-10: 0195086155

ISBN-13: 9780195086157

Edition: 1996

Authors: Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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Rachel Speght (1597?-?) is the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unapologetically and by name as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. Her tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's very popular treatise attacking women (1617) and also a serious effort to stake women's claim to prevailing Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, forcing it to yield a more expansive and more suitable concept of women's nature and role. Her volume of poetry, Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed (1612), includes a long memento mori mediation and an allegorical dream vision that recounts her own rapturous encounter with learning.…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Textual Introduction


Selected Bibliography


A Mouzell for Melastomus


Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women


Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed


Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy