Early Modern Women's Writing

A Handbook on early modern women's writing that combines new developments in historical and critical research with theoretical and conceptual approaches.

Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women''s wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed...

The period 1517-1625 was crucial for the development of political thought. During this time of expanding empires, religious upheaval, and social change, new ideas about the organisation and purpose of human communities began to be debated. In particular,...