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Write or Be Written

Name: Write or Be Written
Author: Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt
ISBN: 9781840142884

by Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt

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Overview

Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and the construction of knowledge.

The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking, and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power and desire; female writing and the marketplace/publishing; and revisions of male- dominated poetic conventions and traditions.

About the Author, Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt

Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith is the host of a syndicated television series and appears regularly on NBC's Today show. She owns three B. Smith's restaurants in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Sag Harbor, New York, and is the editor in chief of the newly launched magazine B. Smith Style. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor.

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Essays address the meaning of poetry in the lives of early modern women as well as the importance of writing as an act of cultural engagement and commentary. In particular, the essays investigate the interactions between poetry and cultural constraints in a period when women were expected to be silent and obedient. The contributors are academics in English and literature in the US, Canada, and Europe. Their topics include contextualizing the self, female discursive strategies, religious discourses and gender, female writing and the publishing marketplace, and revisions of male-dominated conventions and traditions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)