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- Represents the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers
- Considers both womens' textual and non-textual output
- Contributes to the rich, diverse body of research on Early Modern women's writing
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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“Van Elk’s well-written and well-documented monograph is an inspiring incentive for more of this kind of research and is highly recommended for anyone interested in transnational relations and early modern female authorship.” (Sophie Reinders, Women's Writing, July, 2018)
“This stimulating study offers the first book-length analysis of selected seventeenth-century English and Dutch women writers paired together or in groups; it thus exemplifies current interest in transnationalism, translation, and cross-cultural comparison. … Well organized, skillfully written, and amply documented, Martine van Elk’s study is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational scholarship.” (Anne R. Larsen, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 57 (2), April, 2018)
“The originality of this work lies in its wide scope. … Those scholars of gender studies and early modern women writers who share this evaluation, and those ready to let themselves be persuaded, should read Early Modern Women’s Writing. At the very least, this study brings Dutch sources under the attention of an international audience by presenting them side by side with their English ‘counterparts’.” (Lotte Fikkers, Journal of the Nothern Renaissance, northernrenaissance.org, February, 2018)
“Martine van Elk’s rich and eclectic study compares Dutch and English women writers working at a time when an ideology of domesticity emerged, with the public and private spheres gradually but irreversibly separating. … Van Elk’s monograph offers an important assessment of how women on both sides of the narrow seas sought public recognition of their artistic skill.” (Nadine Akkerman, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71 (2), 2018)
“Early Modern Women’s Writing … is an important accomplishment because it incorporates the understudied works of Dutch female authors in an argument aimed to intervene in English-language debates. It invites further reading and analysis of all the texts that have been (re-)discovered over the last few decades and relates them to topical research questions on themes such as literature and politics, book history, and self-representation.” (Nina Geerdink, Early Modern Low Countries, Vol. 2 (01), 2018)
“In this groundbreaking and original work, Martine van Elk shows how women writers in early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic navigated the tensions between a new ideology of domesticity and the rise of the public sphere. Addressing important questions about female authorship, Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere is also a major contribution to comparative literary criticism.” (Helmer Helmers, Lecturer in Early Modern Dutch Literature and Culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Book Title: Early Modern Women's Writing
Book Subtitle: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic
Authors: Martine van Elk
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33222-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33221-5Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81459-9Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33222-2Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 299
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Early Modern Europe