Engendering the fall: John Milton and seventeenth-century women writers
Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century...
| Resumo: | Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century -- Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder -- The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world -- Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost -- Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse -- Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation |
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| Descrição do item: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255] - 268) and index |
| Descrição Física: | VIII, 280 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-4086-3 |
