ENG7036 Writing Women 1600–1660
Dr Ramona Wray (co-ordinator)
This module will look in detail at the variety of writing produced by women in the period 1600-1660.In doing so it traces the trajectory of women's writing from the first stirrings of female authorship in the late sixteenth century to the emergence of the professional woman writer at the Restoration.Across the first half of the century women participated in many kinds of discourse including poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, biography, advice books and religio-political treatises.This module explores all the major genres, assessing women's distinctive literary contributions and working towards a reappraisal of their work in terms of recent critical and theoretical perspectives.