Overview
- Features an afterword by Margaret Ezell and contributions from a range of internationally recognised scholars
- Addresses collaborative authorship - a topic widely discussed in current authorship studies
- Examines a broad variety of topics, from marginalia to Early English Printers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Literary and Intertextual Co-labor
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Front Matter
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Collective Contexts and Material Co-production
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women’s texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women’s studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women’s writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital “A” authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or female priority in the production of early modern texts, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration investigates the role that gender has played – and might continue to play – in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women’s literary history.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Patricia Pender is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration
Editors: Patricia Pender
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58777-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58776-9Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86473-0Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58777-6Published: 10 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 291
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, History of Early Modern Europe