[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by sodascouts

Chris is right, except she left off Milton and a few folks who I don't expect anyone not in lit to care about. lol

I am excited about some women authors who haven't been getting as much treatment. Tentatively, my dissertation is going to be about Anna Weamys and Lady Mary Wroth, and how they took the masculine genre of the epic and made it into a tool to express their own ideas about the political occurences of the time. And some other boring stuff about the gender relationships in their works, and how they presented political commentary through gender representations, blahblahblah.

Have you studied Sidney, too? I'm just mentioning him because I read him in a class in which I read the authors Chris mentioned. I remember being the only person in the class who liked him at all. It's been awhile though, so I don't remember what piece it was.