The Work of Self-representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New EnglandUniv of North Carolina Press, 1991 - 306 páginas In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of "woman" and "feminine |
Contenido
Introduction Gendering the Universal The Puritan Paradigm of Redeemed Subjectivity | 1 |
The Paradox of Practical Conformity John Fiskes Elegy on John Cotton | 41 |
The Puritan Cult of the Spouse Edward Taylors Dialectic of Difference | 79 |
Anne Bradstreet In the place God had set her | 127 |
Roger Williamss Key A Gynesis of Race | 181 |
EPILOGUE | 229 |
NOTES | 237 |
WORKS CITED | 281 |
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The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England Ivy Schweitzer Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
The Work of Self-representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England Ivy Schweitzer Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
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