'This Double Voice'

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Danielle Clarke

   Pages 1-15

3. Female Authority and Authorization Strategies in Early Modern Europe

   • Jane Stevenson

   Pages 16-40

4. ‘In a mirrour clere’: Protestantism and Politics in Anne Lok’s Miserere mei Deus

   • Rosalind Smith

   Pages 41-60

5. ‘Formd into words by your divided lips’: Women, Rhetoric and the Ovidian Tradition

   • Danielle Clarke

   Pages 61-87

6. The Voices of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne and Lady Bacon

   • Alan Stewart

   Pages 88-102

7. Old Wives’ Tales Retold: the mutations of the Fairy Queen

   • Diane Purkiss

   Pages 103-122

8. Giving Time to Women: the Eternizing Project in Early Modern England

   • Amy Boesky

   Pages 123-141

9. The ‘Double Voice’ of Renaissance Equity and the Literary Voices of Women

   • Lorna Hutson

   Pages 142-163

10. ‘For Worth, Not Weakness, Makes in Use but One’: Literary Dialogues in an English Renaissance Family

    • Marion Wynne-Davies

    Pages 164-184

11. ‘Whom the Lord with love affecteth’: Gender and the Religious Poet, 1590–1633

    • Helen Wilcox

    Pages 185-207

12. Ejaculation or Virgin Birth? The Gendering of the Religious Lyric in the Interregnum

    • Elizabeth Clarke

    Pages 208-229

13. Unfettered Organs: the Polemical Voices of Katherine Philips

    • James Loxley

    Pages 230-248

14. A Voice for Hermaphroditical Education

    • Frances Teague

    Pages 249-269

15. Back Matter

    Pages 270-280

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The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

• University College Dublin, Ireland

  Danielle Clarke

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Elizabeth Clarke

Danielle Clarke is Professor of English at Boston College. Elizabeth Clarke is Research Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.

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