Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England

by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

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A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse. These terms were often wielded in negative and gendered ways--to write soft or irregular verses was said to be a feminine...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691272018

ISBN13:9780691272016

Release Date:September 2025

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:192 Pages

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