'Nevitt has accomplished a neat trick, joining current feminist theory with materialist scholarship in pamphlets and political culture to construct a nuanced, multivalent account of female agency, addressing both the rhetoric and the material activities of a range of women. With insights about the relation between public acts and printed texts, careful reconstruction of historical moments, and an attention to language and tone, this accomplished study beautifully evokes the anxieties, ambitions, and self-conscious ...
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'Nevitt has accomplished a neat trick, joining current feminist theory with materialist scholarship in pamphlets and political culture to construct a nuanced, multivalent account of female agency, addressing both the rhetoric and the material activities of a range of women. With insights about the relation between public acts and printed texts, careful reconstruction of historical moments, and an attention to language and tone, this accomplished study beautifully evokes the anxieties, ambitions, and self-conscious displacements that were the enabling features of women's utterance in the English Revolution. Nevitt's stunning book is an authoritative guide to women's involvement in revolutionary culture and will be a touchstone for further work in the field.' Sharon Achinstein, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University 'Nevitt deftly manoeuvres between history, criticism and theory... (his) story is rich in detail and sophisticated both in its assimilation of theoretical perspectives, and in its exploration of the interrelations between writing, publishing and gender. His book enriches our understanding of the cultures of cheap print both through women's actual participation in it and through the ideologies of exclusion that cut across it.' Times Literary Supplement '...remarkable study...With its innovative blend of materialists scholarship and rhetorical analysis, Nevitt's study opens a new window on Civil War women writers...With grace and intelligence, Nevitt moves past the gendered dichotomies that have governed our understanding of the English Renaissance and toward a more fluid and amibiguous formulation of female agency in the early modern period.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This is a rich and fascinating monograph which draws upon recent developments in history, literary criticism and print culture... it is a valuable and sophisticated study which highlights the range of possibilities for engagement in pamphlet culture as well as the ways in which that
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