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Joscelin, Elizabeth. Ed(S): Metcalfe, Jean Ledrew - Mothers Legacy To Her Unborn Childe - 9780802046949 - V9780802046949
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Mothers Legacy To Her Unborn Childe

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Description for Mothers Legacy To Her Unborn Childe Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.

The mother's advice book represents a distinctly female literary genre appearing in seventeenth-century England. According to the conventions of this form, a mother leaves written instructions, of a predominantly spiritual nature, as a legacy to her children. The Mothers Legacy, written by Elizabeth Joscelin, is particularly significant for its documentation of ideas about women's education, authorship, and spirituality. With her writing, the author inscribes a distinctly female Protestant perspective. Moreover, as a highly self-conscious text, sophisticated in its use of rhetoric and passionately eloquent, The Mothers Legacy is an important example of Renaissance devotional writing. This popular book was reprinted ... Read more

The text is presented as a parallel edition of the original holograph and facing printed version. This comparative format allows for a discussion of the transmission and alteration of the original manuscript and provides a unique insight into the changes made by a male editor to a text written by a woman. The edition also includes an appendix of nineteenth-century introductions to the work, and an extensive bibliography.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802046949
SKU
V9780802046949
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Joscelin, Elizabeth. Ed(S): Metcalfe, Jean Ledrew
Jean LeDrew Metcalfe is in the department of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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