- Title
- Afterword: reading early modern women and the poem
- Creator
- Pender, Patricia; Smith, Rosalind
- Relation
- Early Modern Women and the Poem p. 244-252
- Relation
- http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719090721
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In 2007, the journal Women's Writing dedicated an issue to early modern women's writing following the 2005 conference 'Still kissing the rod'. The papers published there highlighted both new directions in the field and issues central to the field's conception that remained unresolved. On the one hand, critical work on a rapidly increasing number of early modern women writers was seen to be transforming concepts of early modern authorship, transmission practices and histories of the book. On the other hand, the field was perceived by at least one critic as persistently marginal, defined by its difference from and irrelevance to the early modern canon of male-authored writing. Debts to the field's origins in the feminist project of recovery meant that a tension persisted between a focus on the difference of women's writing, attributable to the complex cultural matrix surrounding individual female authors, and a focus on the comparability of women's writing to that of their male counterparts. This tension between difference and similarity was directed towards the canon in Lorna Hutson's essay in that issue, which asked the larger question of whether work on early modern women writers could be absorbed into existing narratives of literary and cultural history, or whether it disrupted and reconstituted those narratives. At stake here is the way gender is formulated and privileged: whether as a limiting or generative discourse, intersecting with the other cultural discourses making up a writer's experience.
- Subject
- modern poetry; gender; women
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054102
- Identifier
- uon:15708
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780719090721
- Language
- eng
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