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Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine Usher Henderson

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Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine Usher Henderson

Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today—writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in an essay/interview reflecting the dynamic that develops naturally when two vital minds meet to discuss topic of mutually interest. The writers talk about the role of memory, space, and family in their work, about politics, dreams, and race, about their mothers and children and alma maters, about book reviewing and their agents, editors, and publishers, and about each others' work. A bibliography of principal works follows each essay. A valuable contribution to writers both female and male, for above all else, this is a book about writing.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813185467

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9780813185460

Gender and Song in Early Modern England

By: Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson

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Gender and Song in Early Modern England

By: Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

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236

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Routledge

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1317130480

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9781317130482

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

By: Katherine Low

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The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

By: Katherine Low

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan. The volume explores portrayals of Job and his wife in publications on marriage and gender roles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, moving onto an investigation of William Blake's sharp artistic divergence from the common tradition in his representation of Job's wife as a shrew. In the exploration of societal portrayals of Job and his Wife throughout history, this book discovers how arguments about marriage intertwine with not only gender roles, but also, with political, social, and historical movements.

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241

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A&C Black

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0567520455

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9780567520456

Katherine Parr

Complete Works and Correspondence

By: Katherine Parr

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Katherine Parr

Complete Works and Correspondence

By: Katherine Parr

To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England. For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.

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656

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University of Chicago Press

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0226647269

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9780226647265

Unfixable Forms

Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

By: Katherine Schaap Williams

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Unfixable Forms

Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

By: Katherine Schaap Williams

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes—and is in turn remade by—early modern disability. Figures described as "deformed," "lame," "crippled," "ugly," "sick," and "monstrous" crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In each case, such a description distills cultural expectations about how a body should look and what a body should do—yet, crucially, demands the actor's embodied performance. In the early modern theater, concepts of disability collide with the deforming, vulnerable body of the actor. Reading dramatic texts alongside a diverse array of sources, ranging from physic manuals to philosophical essays to monster pamphlets, Katherine Schaap Williams excavates an archive of formal innovation to argue that disability is at the heart of the early modern theater's exploration of what it means to put the body of an actor on the stage. Offering new interpretations of canonical works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, and close readings of little-known plays such as The Fair Maid of the Exchange and A Larum For London, Williams demonstrates how disability cuts across foundational distinctions between nature and art, form and matter, and being and seeming. Situated at the intersections of early modern drama, disability studies, and performance theory, Unfixable Forms locates disability on the early modern stage as both a product of cultural constraints and a spark for performance's unsettling demands and electrifying eventfulness.

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Cornell University Press

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1501753525

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9781501753527

Half Humankind

Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

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Half Humankind

Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

Since the very beginnings of literature, "half humankind"--The female of the species-has been an irresistible subject for the pens of the other half.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252011740

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Half Humankind

Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

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Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

Since the very beginnings of literature, "half humankind"--The female of the species-has been an irresistible subject for the pens of the other half.

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Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine U. Henderson

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Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine U. Henderson

Gathers interviews with Alison Lurie, Gail Godwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Marge Piercy, M.F.K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Kate Braverman

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813117801

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9780813117805

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Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Gender and Song in Early Modern England

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

Katherine Parr

Katherine Parr

Unfixable Forms

Unfixable Forms

Half Humankind

Half Humankind

Half Humankind

Half Humankind

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