Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century - Hardcover

Wilson, Katharina M.

9780820311111: Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820311111 ISBN 13: 9780820311111

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1989

During the 17th century the creative outpourings of European women increased dramatically as they began to address -- through poems, plays, letters, & prose fiction -- the subject of women s condition & potential. This anthology presents the works of 19 authors from France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, & Hungary. Includes: Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn her living by her pen, a dramatist, lyric poet, & a founder of the English novel; Ludamilia Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, whose verse contributed to the formation of the religious vernacular in Germ.; & Mme de Sevigne, the most prolific epistolary writer of the age.

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About the Author:

KATHARINA M. WILSON is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books and the editor of Medieval Women Writers (Georgia).

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