Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 1-11

3. ‘Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father’: The Roper/Basset Line and the Lives of Thomas More

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   Pages 12-26

4. ‘Sory coumfortlesse Orphanes’: The Rastell/Heywood Line

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   Pages 27-47

5. ‘Worthy of their blood and their vocation’: The More/Cresacre Line

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   Pages 48-62

6. Representations of Relations on the Political Stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley Household

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   Pages 63-88

7. ‘As I, for one, who thus my habits change’, Mary Wroth and the Abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert Familial Discourse

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   Pages 89-103

8. Sisters and Brothers: Divided Sibling Identity in the Cary Family

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   Pages 104-139

9. Desire, Chastity and Rape in the Cavendish Familial Discourse

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   Pages 140-169

10. Conclusion

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    Pages 170-173

11. Back Matter

    Pages 174-209

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This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.

• bibliography
• discourse
• English
• identity
• knowledge
• Renaissance
• stage
• style
• Thomas More
• women
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

• Department of English, University of Surrey, UK

  Marion Wynne-Davies

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES teaches English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her publications include Renaissance Women Dramatists: Texts and Documents (with S.P. Cerasano). She has also published on Shakespeare, Jonson and other early modern authors, as well as on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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