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Imperfect Alchemist: Changing the Canon Through Historical Fiction
Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender
Professor Miller’s course on “Shakespeare’s Sisters” focuses on Renaissance women writers who were long excluded from the literary canon. Her talk shares how the course inspired her to change the canon outside the classroom in her own series of historical novels, to introduce these extraordinary women to a wider public.
Resources
Author website: naomimillerbooks.com
Two books used in Smith "Shakespeare's Sisters" course, that include excerpts from the writings of all the women in my Shakespeare's Sisters series:
Women Writers in Renaissance England, ed. Randall Martin (Longman, 1997), and
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents, ed. S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies.
Imperfect Alchemist: Changing the Canon Through Historical Fiction
Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender
Professor Miller’s course on “Shakespeare’s Sisters” focuses on Renaissance women writers who were long excluded from the literary canon. Her talk shares how the course inspired her to change the canon outside the classroom in her own series of historical novels, to introduce these extraordinary women to a wider public.
Resources
Author website: naomimillerbooks.com
Two books used in Smith "Shakespeare's Sisters" course, that include excerpts from the writings of all the women in my Shakespeare's Sisters series:
Women Writers in Renaissance England, ed. Randall Martin (Longman, 1997), and
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents, ed. S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies.
