This book investigates early modern women’s intervention in politics and the public sphere by looking at their writings on civil war. Taking a transcultural and comparative perspective, it looks specifically at women’s political writings in England and France during a period when cross-channel political and cultural interchanges between these two nation-states were frequent and significant. Taking the term “early modern” expansively, the chronological reach of this study extends from fifteenth-century Christine de Pizan to Germaine de Stael and Helen Maria Williams, elucidating both the historical specificity of their political writings and the transhistorical context of civil war; a context, this book argues, which enabled women’s participation in political thought.weiterlesen