Sex and Style
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse. These terms were often wielded in negative and gendered ways—to write soft or irreg...
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse. These terms were often wielded in negative and gendered ways—to write soft or irreg...
