Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon

(Part of the Studies in the English Renaissance Series)

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Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems. Using standard genres to address distinctly feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" repeatedly projects a female subject...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813120497

ISBN13:9780813120492

Release Date:June 1998

Publisher:University Press of Kentucky

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon

(Part of the Studies in the English Renaissance Series)

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