Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700 / Tamara Harvey.

Author/creator Harvey, Tamara, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Description163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Literature, Modern--17th century. --History and criticism.
America--Literatures. --History and criticism.
America--Literatures. --Women authors.

SeriesWomen and gender in the early modern world
Women and gender in the early modern world. ^A517921
Contents Introduction: Modesty's charge : feminist functionalism and seventeenth-century feminist theory -- 'Now sisters-- impart your usefulnesse, and force' : Anne Bradstreet's feminist functionalism -- 'Cuerpo luminoso' : body and soul in sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero sueño -- 'I doe not thinke the body that dyes shall rise agayne' : Anne Hutchinson's mortalism as feminist functionalism -- Femmes fortes : mysticism and the female apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.
LCCN 2008015494
ISBN9780754664529
ISBN075466452X

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN 845 .H37 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold