Elizabethan women and the poetry of courtship
Auteur :
Bell, Ilona
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521158725
Date de publication :
9 déc. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
410 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
During Elizabeth I's reign, love poetry acquired a popularity and brilliance unparalleled in English literary history. Showing how love poetry was used to court Elizabethan women, in this 1999 book Bell examines a range of texts by male poets and women writers, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.