The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
Author: JOSEPH. SWETNAM
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385395493

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T184911 Anonymous. By Joseph Swetnam. Originally published in 1615 as 'The araignment of lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women'. London: printed for B. Deacon, 1704. [14],17-168p.; 12°

The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Author: Thomas N. Corns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1993-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521423090

English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.

English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century

English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Gary F. Waller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317895584

Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.

Echoes of Desire

Echoes of Desire
Author: Heather Dubrow
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501722859

Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient patron on the other.

Oppositional Voices

Oppositional Voices
Author: Tina Kronitiris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134678096

Oppositional Voices is a study of six women writers in the late Elizabethan period, who, ignoring Renaissance society's injunction that women should confine themselves to religious compositions, wrote and translated poetry, drama and romantic fiction. Tina Krontiris brings together their work, including at times their voiced opposition to certain oppressive ideas and stereotypes. Rather than simply glorify these voices, her study subtly probes the influence of a culture inimical to female creative activity on the writings of these women.