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Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence (Early Modern Literature in History)
Sonnets and the English Woman Writer 15601621 The Politics of Absence - Early Modern Literature in History Author:Rosalind Smith This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences in comparison withnbsp;Continental women writers and English male authors.nbsp;Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within... more » genre.« less