This article assesses our much-expanded view of the texts produced by early modern women in Ireland, surveying what is available to present-day researchers and considering emerging methodologies for the analysis of early modern female voices. The range of genres with which we now know early modern women engaged owes much to feminist literary historians’ capacious approach to defining literature, expanding beyond traditionally elite genres (drama, poetry, fiction) to encompass writing in all its forms. Thus, the present corpus includes letters and petitions, life writing, devotional prose, legal depositions, as well as all kinds of verse and song, in multiple languages. Moreover, where the primary evidence in Ireland sometimes seems sparse, international perspectives have illuminated the currents of women's writing. Interpretative paradigms from other fields — book history and the history of reading, culinary and medical history, network analysis — are being applied to yield fresh insights about this material. The question of how early modern Ireland was experienced by women has been explored in studies that address such texts as articulations of subjectivity, in the light of the history of emotions. The wide range of situations and genres of women's writing in early modern Ireland is now firmly evident, inspiring a host of new approaches.

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文本地形：女性写作的发展和方向，1500-1700

本文评估了我们对爱尔兰早期现代女性创作的文本的广泛看法，调查了当今研究人员可用的内容，并考虑了分析早期现代女性声音的新兴方法。我们现在所知道的早期现代女性参与的体裁范围在很大程度上归功于女权主义文学史学家定义文学的宽泛方法，超越了传统的精英体裁（戏剧、诗歌、小说），涵盖了所有形式的写作。因此，目前的语料库包括多种语言的信件和请愿书、传记、灵修散文、法律证词以及各种诗歌和歌曲。此外，在爱尔兰的主要证据有时似乎很少的情况下，国际视野已经阐明了女性写作的潮流。来自其他领域的解释范式——书籍史和阅读史、烹饪史和医学史、网络分析——正在被应用于产生关于这种材料的新见解。根据情感史，在处理诸如表达主观性等文本的研究中，探讨了女性如何体验早期现代爱尔兰的问题。现代早期爱尔兰女性写作的广泛情况和体裁现在已经非常明显，激发了许多新方法。根据情感的历史。现代早期爱尔兰女性写作的广泛情况和体裁现在已经非常明显，激发了许多新方法。根据情感的历史。现代早期爱尔兰女性写作的广泛情况和体裁现在已经非常明显，激发了许多新方法。