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WOMEN WRITERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE


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Texts:  Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan (Norton Critical Ed.), The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin), The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin), Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji (Vintage, abridged), Women Writers in Renaissance England (Longman), and Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England (Michigan)


Bibliographical Resources

I. Medieval

A. Anthologies

B. General Studies

C. Individual Authors

II. Renaissance

A. Anthologies

Clarke, Danielle, ed. Renaissance Women Poets: Isabella

Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer. Penguin, 2000.

Fitzmaurice, James, et al, eds. Major Women Writers of    

Seventeenth-Century England. U of Michigan P, 1997.

Greer, Gemaine, et al, eds. Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of  

Seventeenth-Century Women’s Verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.

Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie, ed. Women’s Writing of the Early

Modern Period, 1588-1688: An Anthology. Columbia UP, [2002?].

Martin, Randall, ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England.

 Longman, 1997.

Rogers, Katharine M., and William McCarthy, eds. The Meridian

 Anthology of Early Women Writers. New American Library, 1987.

Salzman, Paul. Early Moden Women’s Writing: An Anthology,

 1560-1700. Oxford UP, 2000.

Travitsky, Betty, ed. The Paradise of Women: Writings by

Englishwomen of the Renaissance. Columbia UP, 1989.

Wilson, Katharina M., and Frank J. Wanke, eds. Women Writers of

the Seventeenth Century. U of Georgia P, 1989.

Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed. Women Poets of the Renaissance.

Routledge, 1999.

B. General Studies

 

Aughterson, Kate, ed. Renaissance Woman: Constructions of

Femininity in England: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 1995.

Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the Renaissance.

Princeton UP, 1987.

Benson, Pamela Joseph. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman.

Penn State UP, 1992.

Brink, Jean R., et al, eds. The Politics of Gender in Early Modern

Europe. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 12. 1989.

-----. Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit. U of Illinois P,

1991.

Ferguson, Margaret W., et al, eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The

Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. U of Chicago P, 1986.

Fisher, Shelia, and Janet E. Halley, eds. Seeking the Woman in Late

Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism. U of Tennessee P, 1989.

Hannay, Margaret P., ed. Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as

Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works. Kent State UP, 1985.

Haselkorn, Anne M., and Betty S. Travitsky, eds. The Renaissance

Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. U of Massachusetts P, 1990.

Henderson, Diana. Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender,

and Performance. U of Illinois P, 1995.

Henderson, Katherine Usher, and Barbara F. McManus. Half   

Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640. U of Illinois P, 1985.

Hull, Suzanne W. Chaste, Silent & Obedient: English Books for

Women, 1475-1640. Huntington Library, 1982.

Jankowski, Theodora A. Women in Power in the Early Modern

Drama. U of Illinois P, 1992.

Jardine, Lisa. Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the

Age of Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Columbia UP, 1989.

Jordan, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and

Political Models. Cornell UP, 1990.

King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance. U of Chicago P, 1991.

 

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England.

Harvard UP, 1993.

Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the

Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives. Syracuse UP, 1986.

Schleiner, Louise. Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Indiana UP,

1994.

Summers, Claude J., and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. Representing

Women in Renaissance England. U of Missouri P, 1997.

Utley, Francis Lee. The Crooked Rib: An Analytical Index to the

Argument about Women in English and Scots Literature to the End of the Year 1568. 1944. Rpt. Octagon Books, 1970.

Wilcox, Helen, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700.

Cambridge UP, 1996.

Woodbridge, Linda. Women and the Renaissance: Literature and the

Nature of Womanhood, 1540-1620. U of Illinois P, 1984.

C. Individual Authors