The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-century Woman: A Reader

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N. H. Keeble
Routledge, 1994 - 306 sidor
This anthology brings together extracts from a wide variety of seventeenth-century sources to illustrate the ways in which the cultural notion of `women' was then constructed. historical circumstances of women's lives in the seventeenth century and the cultural notions of `woman' which prevailed then.
What did women and men think women should be?
Over 200 extracts from books, pamphlets, diaries and letters are arranged under three main headings: female nature, character and behaviour; female roles and affairs; and `feminisms.' Each chapter is introduced by N.H. Keeble who contextualises the extracts and draws out the main issues revised.

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N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. He is the author of "Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters "(1982) and" The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England "(1987). He has compiled a two-volume "Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter" (1991, with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) and has edited texts by Baxter, John Bunyan and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as collections of essays on Bunyan and an anthology illustrating "The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman" (1994).

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