Martine van Elk, Early Modern Women’s Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic

Abstract

For several decades now, it has been impossible to imagine literary history without paying attention to women's writing.While this is true for scholarship on both Dutch and English literary history, the scale and scope of research into women's writing in these two language areas are incomparable.Early modern women's writing in English is a very lively field of research; scholars in the field are working on thought-provoking themes such as manuscript and print or patronage and professionalism.This English-language work in particular has thus contributed pioneering work to the broader field of early modern literature and culture.Research into Dutch women's writing from the early modern period is also animated, but is only slowly beginning to move beyond its primary focus of listing Dutch women writers and what they produced.1 Martine van Elk's study Early Modern Women's Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic is an important accomplishment because it incorporates the understudied works of Dutch female authors in an argument aimed to intervene in English-language debates.It invites further reading and analysis of all the texts that have been (re-)discovered over the last few decades and relates them to topical research questions on themes such as literature and politics, book history, and self-representation.

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