Early Modern Women's Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic (Early Modern Literature in History) by Martine van Elk
English | 18 Jan. 2017 | ISBN: 331933221X | 299 Pages | PDF | 3.89 MB
This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly