Women Writing Back / Writing Women Back

Alicia Montoya, Anke Gilleir, Suzan van Dijk, eds.,
Women Writing Back / Writing Women Back. Transnational Perspectives from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Era.
Leiden: Brill, 2010.

ISBN 978 90 04 18463 3

€ 99.- | $ 141.-
Discount 25 % till 31.12.2010; please mention code: 48203
Orders by email:
brill@turpin-distribution.com (outside the Americas)
cs@brillusa.com (in the Americas)

This volume has been prepared in the context of the NEWW collaboration. It has been presented 26 May during a meeting of the network in Turku (Finland). The papers collected here address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In particular, they focus on three themes: the creation of female spaces or communities; women’s appropriation of existing or developing literary genres; and transnational perspectives on early modern women’s writings.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya:

• Introduction: Toward a New Conception of Women’s Literary History
  

Female Spaces, Female Communities

Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay:

• ‘To Promote God’s Praise and her Neighbour’s Salvation’. Strategies of Authorship and Readership among Mystic Women in the Later Middle Ages
  
  

Anne-Marie May:

• Gendering Place: The Role of Place in Anne Krabbe’s Ballad Works
  
  

Ina Schabert:

• ‘To Make Frequent Assemblies, Associations, and Combinations Amongst Our Sex.’ Nascent Ideas of Female Bonding in Seventeenth-Century England
  
  

Vanda Anastacio:

• Women and Literary Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Lisbon
  
  

Appropriating Literary Genre

Philiep Bossier:

• Female Writing and the Use of Literary Byways. Pastoral Drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553–1595)
  
  

Meredith K. Ray:

• Prescriptions for Women: Alchemy, Medicine and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes
  
  

Nina Geerdink:

• The Appropriation of the Genre of Nuptial Poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649–1711)
  
  

Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots:

• Madame de Maintenon au miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d’une écriture féminine
  
  

Perry Gethner:

• French Women Writers and Heroic Genres
  
  

Transnational Perspectives

Bernadette Andrea:

• The Tartar Girl, The Persian Princess, and Early Modern English Women’s Authorship from Elizabeth I to Mary Wroth
  
  

Lara Lynn Westwater:

• A Cloistered Nun Abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti’s International Literary Career
  
  

Ineke Janse:

• Traveller, Pedagogue and Cultural Mediator: Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite and her Female Context
  
  

Monica Bolufer:

• Translation and Intellectual Reflection in the Works of Enlightened Spanish Women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808)
  
  

Elena Gretchanaia:

• ‘Nous voudrions que les femmes s’occupent de la littérature’: Traductions des romancières françaises en Russie autour de 1800
  
  
  

AsK, September 2010

---

• Publications > Volumes WomenWriters > Women Writing Back