Bøker av Mary Ellen Lamb

Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts confirms the power of oral traditions to shape and also to unsettle concepts of the masculine as well as of the feminine. This collection usefully complicates any easy assumptions about associations of oral traditions with gender.

Drawing together essays and articles from a disparate group of scholarly journals and collective volumes, this title offers a selection from some of the best work on the subject of early modern women writers. It is suitable for scholars new to this area as well as for experienced scholars.

"The Early Modern Englishwoman" is designed to make available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about women. The volumes reproduce carefully chosen copies of the texts, incorporating significant variants.

Using the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson, this title investigates the social narratives of several social groups - an urban, middling group; an elite at the court of James; and an aristocratic faction from the countryside.