Texts from the Querelle, 1616-1640: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 2 / Edition 1

by Pamela J. Benson

Overview

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754631149
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/04/2008
Series:	The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Pamela J. Benson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Daniel Tuvill, Title page, Proem (1-5), Chapter 1 (5-12), Chapter 8 (87-99) and Epilogue (137-62) in Asylum Veneris, orA Sanctvary for Ladies (1616); Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomvs (1617); Ester Sowernam, Ester hath hang'd Haman (1617); Constantia Munda, The Worming of a madde Dog (1617), Hic Mvlier (1620), Hæc Vir (1620); John Donne, Title page (A2r and ’[Paradox] VI. That it is possible to find some vertue in some Women’ (sigs C3v-C4v) in Ivvenilia (1633); John Taylor, A Iuniper Lecture (1639), The Womens sharpe revenge (1640).