Seventeenth-century prose fiction by English women writers: primary sources and recent studies (1977-97)

Abstract

This is a bibliography of prose fiction written by Englishwomen in the seventeenth century. It includes sections on general bibliographies, studies and anthologies, and on the various writers involved (Mary Wroth, Anna Weamys, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, and Delarivier Manley), each divided into primary and secondary sources.In the last twenty years there has been a revisión of literary history thanks to feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and related critical trends. Consequently, a large number of texts and writers that had been ignored and even despised have been recovered and reassessedby means of new editions and critical studies. A good example of this is the long-forgotten tradition of female writing that has been reclaimed by feminist scholars over the last two decades.