As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... Wendy Martin, in "A Study in Subversive Piety,"" and Ivey Schweitzer, "The Work of Self-Representation-: Lyric Poetry in Colonial Ne...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... Wendy Martin, in "A Study in Subversive Piety,"" and Ivey Schweitzer, "The Work of Self-Representation-: Lyric Poetry in Colonial Ne...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate