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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Politics of Literacy
Education
The Female Reader
Women's Books
This Book
1 Gendering the English Reformation: The Vernacular Reader in Anne Askew's Examinations and Katherine Parr's Lamentacion of a Synner
Anne Askew and the Femininity of Protestant Polemic
Katherine Parr and the ‘ignoraunce of her blind life’
The Monument of Matrones
Conclusion
2 Dorothy Leigh, the 'Labourous Bee,' and the Work of Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England
Maternal Reading Instruction
The Labour of Reading
The Gender(ed) Politics of Puritan Reading
The Maternal Voice in English Politics
Conclusion
3 A ‘Wit’s Camelion’: Elizabeth Grymeston and the Catholic Reader
Catholic Mothers and Readers
Anne Cornwallis's Commonplace Book
Grymeston and the Commonplace
Grymeston’s Reader: Thomas Chaffyn
The Voice at the Priest Hide
Conclusion
4 Reading the Passion Among Women: Aemelia Lanyer and Elizabeth Middleton
Lanyer's Desiring Female Readers
The Power of the Passion
Elizabeth Middleton’s ‘Free Guifte’
Conclusion
5 ‘Onely a Cipher’: Reading and Writing Secrets in Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
Melasinda’s Dainty Cabinet
Reading Pamphilia’s Ciphers
History in Fiction: Wroth and her Readers
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

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WOMEN, READING, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger In the past decade, the study of women and gender has offered some of the most vital and innovative challenges to scholarship on the early modern period. Ashgate’s new series of interdisciplinary and comparative studies, ‘Women and Gender in the Early Modern World’, takes up this challenge, reaching beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Tides in the series include: Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England Caroline Bicks Shall She Famish Then V Female Food Refusal in Early Modem England Nancy A. Gutierrez Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modem England Ina Habermann Poetic Resistance English Women Writers and the Early Modem Lyric Pamela S. Hammons The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660—1714 Political Pornography and Prostitution Melissa M. Mowry Subordinate Subjects Gender, the Political Nation, and Uterary Form in England, 1588—1688 Mihoko Suzuki Maternal Measures Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modem Period Edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh

Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics o f Early Modern England

EDITH SNOOK

University o f New Brunswick, Canada

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Routledge

Taylor & Francis Group

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First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Jkoutkdge is an im prin t o f the T aylor