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Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing by Paul Salzman

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May 2007, no. 291

Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing by Paul Salzman

OUP, $150 hb, 247 pp

Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing by Paul Salzman

by
May 2007, no. 291

The study of early modern women’s writing is today a thriving field, largely formed by innovative politically and sexually engaged work at the crossroads of historical and theoretical scholarship and teaching. What is often somewhat offhandedly referred to as the work of feminist recovery or canonical revision, an ongoing investigation of the print and manuscript archive of early modern women’s writing, was and is a charged project of materialist intervention and disciplinary critique designed to disturb, rather than simply supplement, the foundations of literary value and its pedagogical reproduction. The study of early modern women’s writing has been especially shaped by its engagements with the insights, assumptions and blindspots of the feminist literary history of post-Enlightenment women’s writing, the provocations and innovations of new historicism and cultural materialism, and the volatile encounter of identity politics, the politics of difference and the history of sexuality.

Kate Lilley reviews 'Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing' by Paul Salzman

Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing

by Paul Salzman

OUP, $150 hb, 247 pp