Abstract
Many critics argue that the recovery of early modern women’s texts has transformed the study of Renaissance literature. The archival findings led to a reconsideration of the dynamics of manuscript and printed text production, a reconceptualization of academic genre classifications, and a rewriting of traditional literary. The recovery of early modern women’s writings continues to have an impact on multiple fields of literary study and the tendency of the recovery of women’s work to destabilize disciplines continues, most recently in fields such as art history. While the advent of online digital collections of texts has been seen as a solution to the problem of keeping recovered texts from being lost, digital projects themselves have inherent issues with sustainability. Recently, scholars voiced concern that the focus on recovery has not resulted in a wider readership for early modern women’s texts because it has not dealt with aesthetic issues. Others challenge the ways in which initial recovery strategies and their resulting histories ignored issues surrounding race and literary culture, enabling it to be obscured.
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Ezell, M.J.M. (2022). Recovery. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_246-1
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