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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 October 2009
      28 May 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511582745
      9780521622547
      9780521035217
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582745
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.497kg, 264 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.401kg, 264 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (26)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (26)
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    The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each centres on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, in relation to external powers such as the Church and the monarchy. Megan Matchinske's study illustrates the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women. The conjunction of gender and statehood in Matchinske's analysis represents an original contribution to the study of early modern identity.

    Reviews

    ‘… is a bold and much-needed attempt to analyse the relationship between women and the state.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    '… succeed[s] in emphasising the variety of early modern women's writing.'

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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