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Oppositional Voices: Women As Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance
Oppositional Voices Women As Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance Author:Tina Krontiris Oppositional Voices is an invigorating study of women writers in the late Elizabethan period. Ignoring Renaissance society's injunction that women should confine themselves to religious compositions, they wrote poetry, drama and romantic fiction. They even voiced opposition to certain oppressive ideas and stereotypes. Yet, as this study suggests... more », what these authors finally say depended greatly on the fact that they were women writing in a culture inimical to female creative activity. Oppositional Voices powerfully shows how gender ideology intertwined with economics and social class, as well as with literary and linguistic conventions, to shape women's writing of the period.« less