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Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Marion Wynne-Davies

    1. Department of English, University of Surrey, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 1-11

  3. ‘Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father’: The Roper/Basset Line and the Lives of Thomas More

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 12-26

  4. ‘Sory coumfortlesse Orphanes’: The Rastell/Heywood Line

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 27-47

  5. ‘Worthy of their blood and their vocation’: The More/Cresacre Line

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 48-62

  6. Representations of Relations on the Political Stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley Household

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 63-88

  7. ‘As I, for one, who thus my habits change’, Mary Wroth and the Abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert Familial Discourse

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 89-103

  8. Sisters and Brothers: Divided Sibling Identity in the Cary Family

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 104-139

  9. Desire, Chastity and Rape in the Cavendish Familial Discourse

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 140-169

  10. Conclusion

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 170-173

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 174-209
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This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Surrey, UK

    Marion Wynne-Davies

About the author

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES teaches English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her publications include Renaissance Women Dramatists: Texts and Documents (with S.P. Cerasano). She has also published on Shakespeare, Jonson and other early modern authors, as well as on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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