Early Modern Women Challenge the Ideology of Epic Form: Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder.
This article argues that two early modern women writers, Anne Bradstreet and Lucy Hutchinson, wrote epics that challenge the patriarchal ideology of epic form. Both writers were connected to prominent political men and were thus privileged with a "status-linked right" (to use Pierre Bourdieu's term)...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 23; no. 3/4; pp. 5 - 31 |
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