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288 pages, Paperback
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Stevie Davies
37 books30 followersWelsh born Stevie Davies is a novelist, literary critic, biographer and historian. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Academi Gymreig and is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Swansea.
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September 23, 2018
Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton-- the mythological tradition of the Renaissance at its height. This is a finely written piece of criticism that restores the place of women. The notion that it was a woman's place to see Creation only through the eyes of man, as Eve was instructed to do, is provocatively challenged. Pico wrote on the dignity of man. In this book, Stevie Davies writes about the dignity of woman, in the Renaissance, and by implication: now. There are some wonderful insights-- for example, the woman as magician in The Winter's Tale. This has remained a text book of images for thirty years, since first reading in 1986. Few critical books survive in the imagination like this.
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