Early modern women and the poem / / edited by Susan Wiseman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798576603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-5261-1089-X; 1-5261-1092-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages) : digital file(s)
• Classificazione: HI 1249
• Disciplina: 821.0099287
• Soggetti: Authors and patrons - Great Britain - History; English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism; Literature; Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Early modern women and the poem; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Researching early modern women and the poem: Susan Wiseman; Part I: Inheritance; CHAPTER 1: Women's poetry and classical authors: Lucy Hutchinson and the classicisation of scripture: Edward Paleit; CHAPTER 2: Elizabeth Melville and the religious sonnet sequence in Scotland and England: Sarah C. E. Ross; CHAPTER 3: The Sapphic context of Lady Mary Wroth's: Line Cottegnies; CHAPTER 4: Women poets and men's sentences: genre and literary tradition in Katherine Philips's early poetry: Gillian WrightPart II: Circulation; CHAPTER 5: 'We thy Sydnean Psalmes shall celebrate': collaborative authorship, Sidney's sister and the English devotional lyric: Suzanne Trill; CHAPTER 6: Mary Wroth and hermaphroditic circulation: Paul Salzman; CHAPTER 7: Sisterhood and female friendship in Constance Aston Fowler's verse miscellany: Helen Hackett; CHAPTER 8: Late seventeenth-century women poets and the anxiety of attribution: Margaret J. M. Ezell; Part III: Narrative; CHAPTER 9: Rethinking authorial reluctance in the paratexts to Anne Bradstreet's poetry: Patricia PenderCHAPTER 10: A 'goodly sample': exemplarity, female complaint and early modern women's poetry: Rosalind Smith; CHAPTER 11: 'The nine-liv'd Sex': women and justice in seventeenth-century popular poetry: Judith Hudson; CHAPTER 12: The contemplative woman's recreation? Katherine Austen and the estate poem: Susan Wiseman; AFTERWORD: Reading early modern women and the poem: Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland