This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored

An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most fa

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including

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Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women’s lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers a