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• W868214977 abstract "Sharon Cadman Seelig. Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives 1600-1680 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 114pp. ISBN 0 521 85695 7.Kate Chedgzoy. Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World, Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 267pp. ISBN 978 0 521 88098 5.1. These two books are further evidence of the shift in early modern women's writing from the margins of criticism to something approaching the mainstream. They also serve quite neatly to, in Seelig's case, sum up the strengths of some earlier approaches to the field, and, in Chedgzoy's case, point to some exciting new directions.2. Seelig's book appears almost twenty years after the pioneering anthology, Her Own Life , introduced us to twelve heterogeneous examples of early modern women's autobiographical writing. In some respects, Seelig's analysis of six women represents a more predictable 'canon' than one might expect, given the ever-growing list of examples being brought to light as scholars continue their fruitful work on manuscript material in particular. I do wonder if it is now the case that Margaret Hoby, Anne Clifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, Anne Halkett and Margaret Cavendish can serve to represent the full range of women's writing of an autobiographical cast. Seelig offers sound, scholarly summations of this material, and her approach will appeal to those in search of a more traditional, literary analysis of writing that is still, in the wider world, shaking off the stigma of being of interest only to social historians. Seelig is prepared to ask some straightforward questions about this material (eg. Isn't Hoby's diary exceedingly monotonous?)and provide some straightforward answers, and accordingly her book will be valuable for undergraduates, who tend to ask such questions and require such answers.3. Seelig is a fine and meticulous reader of diaries like Hoby's and Clifford's, but they are read from a perspective that seeks forms of selfhood. This approach tends to set aside consideration of the way that a woman like Clifford can be seen as having considerable political agency, as evidenced in recent work by Mihoko Suzuki, Susan Wiseman, and, indeed, as demonstrated in a chapter in Chedgzoy's book. In a similar fashion, Seelig's account of Halkett's biography, which analyses it largely in relation to narrative structure, can be contrasted with the sophisticated account in Susan Wiseman's Conspiracy and Virtue (published in the same year as Seelig's book), which unpacks the political implications of Halkett's memoir in the context of both the time of its writing and the earlier civil war events it recounts.4. This politically nuanced approach to early modern women's writing is evident throughout Kate Chedgzoy's ground-breaking book. Chedgzoy analyses early modern women's writing and oral literature as involving a nexus of place and memory. Acts of women's memorialising, in Chedgzoy's terms, leave 'textual traces across many genres and modes of transmission of their efforts to recollect, interpret and communicate their experiences in a changing world' (3). And the 'world' Chedgzoy's study encompasses is the world of the Atlantic archipelago, so that she is able to align writers who have often in the past been placed in national ghettos. As well, her reach into oral as well as literary traditions in Wales and Ireland, and her attention to voices often unheard within anglophone culture, produces a kind of postcolonial rescue of traces that have to be recovered from a colonising erasure.5. So Chedgzoy offers a fascinating chapter on how women drew upon the training in memory that was part of a general humanist heritage and its intersection with commonplace books. …" @default.
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