The Polemics of Rachel Speght Paperback / softback
by Rachel Speght
Edited by Barbara Kiefer (Professor of English and American Literature, Professor of English and Ame Lewalski
Part of the Women Writers in English 1350-1850 series
Paperback / softback
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Rachel Speght (1597?-?) is the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unapologetically and by name as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology.
Her tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's very popular treatise attacking women (1617) and also a serious effort to stake women's claim to prevailing Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, forcing it to yield a more expansive and more suitable concept of women's nature and role.
Her volume of poetry, Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed (1612), includes a long memento mori mediation and an allegorical dream vision that recounts her own rapturous encounter with learning.
Both vigorously defend women's education and the encouragement of women's talent.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:05/12/1996
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- ISBN:9780195086157
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:05/12/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195086157
