The female wits: Women and Gender in restoration literature and culture.

The Female Wits: Women and Gender in Restoration Literature and Culture reúne trabajos sobre varias escritoras inglesas del siglo XVII. Algunas son bien conocidas hoy en día, como Margaret Cavendish y Aphra Behn, mientras que para otras su reconocimiento académico aún está por llegar (Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, etc.). Los ensayos atienden tanto a la forma en que ellas contribuyeron a la transformación de los géneros literarios al uso en su época como a la relación que establecieron con sus coetáneos masculinos.

Table of contents

Introduction

FEMALE WITS AND VERSE:
- Ephelia: A Name or a Context?
- Ladies of the Shade: The pastoral poetry of Aphra Behn and Elizabeth Singer Rowe.
- Self-Crowned Laureatesses: The examples of Margaret Cavendish and Jane Lead.
- Anne Killigrews poetic wit: Heroism and gender construction in the restoration.

FEMALE WITS AND DRAMA
- Reason versus passion: Catherine Trotters deployment of the historical tragedy.
- The politics of modety: The collier controvery and the societies for the reformation of manners.
- Shakespeares english queens into restoration drama: History, romance, and the civilizing process.

FEMALE WITS AND FICTION
- Aphra Behn and the uses of history.
- Aphra Behns 'Love-Letters Between a nobleman and his sister' as a novel of adultery.
- Narratives of Truth-Telling in the making of the english novel: William Congreve's (Incognita) and Mary Pix's (The inhumane cardinal).

FEMALE WITS AND NON-FICTIONAL PROSE
-A veiled wit: the nun writer of The Lady Falkland: Her life (ca. 1655)

Otro libro de Jornadas de Cultura Islámica es Al-andalus: Ocho Siglos De Historia.