Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

456 Pages·2000·15.723 MB·Modern Language Association

by  Susanne Woods, Margaret P. Hannay

Teaching Tudor and
Stuart Women Writers
Modern Language Association of America
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Teaching
Tudor and
Stuart Women
Writers
Edited by
Susanne Woods and
Margaret P. Han nay
The Modern Language Association
New York 2000
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Teaching Tudor and Stuart women writers / edited by Susanne Woods
and Margaret P. Hannay.
p. cm. — (Options for teaching)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87352-346-6 — ISBN 0-87352-347-4 (pbk.)
1. English literature—Women authors—History and criticism.
2. English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism.
3. English literature—Women authors—Study and teaching (Higher)
4. Women authors, English—Biography—Study and teaching (Higher)
5. Women and literature—Great Britain—History—16th century—
Elistory and criticism. 6. Women and literature—Great Britain—History—
17th century—History and criticism. 7. Women in literature. I. Woods,
Susanne, 1943- II. Hannay, Margaret P., 1944- III. Series.
PRI13 .T43 2000
820.9'9287'09031—dc21 00-059440
ISSN 1079-2562
Ann Hurley’s essay is adapted, with permission, from her article of the
same title in Renaissance News and Notes 7.3 (1994): 1-6.
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For our brothers,
to Samuel Woods
and
in memory of Kenneth H. Patterson
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