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This opening chapter explores the trajectory of the study of early modern women’s writing. It traces the origins of the field from the nineteenth century to Virginia Woolf and up to the present, and interrogates the very idea of a ‘field’, the importance of attaining this status, and also the possible pitfalls of such territorial metaphors. It explores the category of ‘women’s writing’ itself and the challenges posed by new work on race, gender, and sexuality to that category. Finally, the chapter lays out the six parts which make up this Handbook, setting out the rationale behind its thematic and approach-based structure and briefly introducing the key arguments and authors of each chapter. |
