Gender and authorship in the Sidney circle
This study demonstrates the extent to which reading and writing were gendered acts in 16th- and early 17th-century England. Renaissance gender ideology did not prevent women from writing altogether, but it affected all writing by creating different standards of acceptability for female writers.
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 297 pages ; 24 cm
9780299126902, 9780299126940, 0299126900, 0299126943
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