Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship
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During Elizabeth I's reign, love poetry acquired a popularity and brilliance unparalleled in English literary history. Ilona Bell shows how the tropes and rhetoric of love poetry were used to court Elizabethan women (at court, in the great houses, and in society at large) and how the women responded to being wooed, in prose, poetry and speech. Juxtaposing canonical male poets and recently discovered women writers, she investigates texts addressed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521158729
ISBN13:9780521158725
Release Date:December 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Related Subjects
16th Century Criticism & Theory English Literature Essays Essays & Correspondence Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Love Poems Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Women Writers Women's StudiesCustomer Reviews
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