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Hardcover Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon Book

ISBN: 0813120497

ISBN13: 9780813120492

Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon

(Part of the Studies in the English Renaissance Series)

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...

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