This Double Voice

Download or read book This Double Voice written by D. Clarke and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere, and to render male negotiations of gender and sexuality invisible and transparent.