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Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski - The Polemics of Rachel Speght, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

The Polemics of Rachel Speght

Av Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Del i serien Women Writers in English 1350-1850

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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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Barbara Lewalski is a Professor in the Departments of English and American Literature at Harvard University.

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As is true in general of the editors in this series, Lewalski's edition of The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght is an informative and accessible text for both specialists and non-specialists. Her thoughtful commentary and notes open up the texts for scholars, providing insight into Speght's literary and social milieux and assistance with her vocabulary and sources. It is an important addition to the canon of pamphlets concerned with the formal controversy over woman in England during this period.

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