Description: A Handbook on early modern women's writing that combines new developments in historical and critical research with theoretical and conceptual approaches.
Review Quotes: "This handbook offers a thorough overview of scholarly work on women's writing from 1540 to 1700. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- Choice
"The handbook is an indispensable reference book for early modern scholars. It fulfills its own challenge of questioning traditional boundaries of authorship, form, place, community, and methodology. The handbook supportsthe digital humanities (though with caution) and broadens the landscape of what academic research and "publishing" means." -- C. R. Brooke, Spring journal"A jubilant entry into scholarship, boasting an impressive cadre of fifty-two contributors. The scope of the handbook indicates first, its indispensable future to scholars, and second, the astronomical growth in the field and, importantly, provides a future trajectory...an indispensable reference book for early modern scholars. It fulfills its own challenge of questioning traditional boundaries of authorship, form, place, community, and methodology." -- C. R. Brooke, Early Modern Women