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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book b
The Widow Ranter, Or, The History of Bacon in Virginia
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Aphra Behn
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Garland Publishing

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One of the last works of the first English woman novelist, probably written in 1687 or 1688. The play uses Nathaniel Bacon's 1676 rebellion in Virginia as a bac
Colonial Women
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: Heidi Hutner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-10-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Colonial Women examines the women-as-land metaphor in English colonial dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, and looks closely at the myths of two his
Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas
Language: en
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Authors: Paul Salzman
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised t
Brabbling Women
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Terri L. Snyder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamati