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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

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ISBN-13: 9780192604736
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 09/22/2022
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 864
File size: 30 MB
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About the Author

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King's College London and her monograph Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture 1640-1680 published in 2013. She has co-edited essay collections including The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (with Johanna Harris, 2010); The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture (with Ben Burton, 2014); Shakespeare's Sonnets: The State of Play (with Hannah Crawforth and Clare Whitehead, 2017) and two collections of poems, On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration (with Hannah Crawforth, 2016) and Women Poets of the English Civil War (with Sarah C.E. Ross, 2017, winner of the 'Best Teaching Edition' prize of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender). Danielle Clarke is Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature at University College Dublin. She has published widely on women's writing, gender, and poetry. Recent articles include work on the reception of Teresa de Ávila, on complaint, and on recipe books. She has just completed an edition of the recipe books from Birr Castle, Co. Offaly, Ireland (Irish Manuscripts Commission) and is working on a book called Becoming Human: Women's Writing, Time, Nature and Devotion 1550-1700. She is a section editor (Theories and Methodologies) for The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women's Writing in English. Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published widely on early modern women's poetry, religious and political writing, and manuscript and print culture, and she is the author of Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2015) and editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: Additional Manuscript 4454 (2011). She has co-edited Editing Early Modern Women (2016, with Paul Salzman) and Early Modern Women's Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics (2020, with Rosalind Smith), and her teaching anthology with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017), won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender's prize for Best Teaching Edition in 2018. She is completing a project on early modern women's complaint, and is a section editor for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing in English.

Table of Contents

Preface1. Introduction: What is Early Modern Women's Writing?, Danielle Clarke, Sarah C. E. Ross, and Elizabeth Scott-BaumannPART I. VOICE AND KNOWLEDGE2. Authorship, Attribution, and Voice in Early Modern Women's Writing, Rosalind Smith3. How Lady Jane Grey May Have Used her Education, Jennifer Richards4. Women and Knowledge: Latin and Greek, Jane Stevenson5. 'At My Petition': Embroidering Esther, Michele Osherow6. Practical Texts: Women, Instruction, and the Household, Carrie Griffin7. Cultures of Correspondence: Women and Natural Philosophy, Helen Smith8. Libraries Not Their Own: Networking Women's Books and Reading in Early Modern England, Leah KnightPART II. FORMS AND ORIGINS9. The Querelle des Femmes, the Overbury Scandal, and the Politics of the Swetnam Controversy in Early Modern England, Christina Luckyj10. The Songscapes of Early Modern Women, Katherine Larson11. Receiving Early Modern Women's Drama, Ramona Wray12. 'Sing and let the song be new': Early Modern Women's Devotional Lyrics, Helen Wilcox13. Lyric Backwardness, Dianne Mitchell14. 'People of a Deeper Speech': Anna Trapnel, Enthusiasm, and the Aesthetics of Incoherence, Kevin Killeen15. Commonplacing, Making Miscellanies, and Interpreting Literature, Victoria Burke16. Women's Life Writing and the Labour of Textual Stewardship, Julie A. Eckerle17. Women and Fiction, Lara Dodds18. Romance and Race, V. M. BraganzaPART III. PLACES19. A Place-Based Approach to Early Modern Women's Writing, Paula McQuade20. London and the Book Trade: Isabella Whitney, Jane Anger, and the 'Maydens of London', Michelle O'Callaghan21. The Self-Portrayal of Widows in the Early Modern English Courts of Law, Lotte Fikkers22. The World of Recipes: Intellectual Culture in and around the Seventeenth-Century Household, Wendy Wall23. Daughters of the House: Women, Theatre, and Place in the Seventeenth Century, Julie Sanders24. Changing Places: Relocating the Court Masque in Early Modern Women's Writing, Laura L. Knoppers25. Race and Geographies of Escape in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Meghan E. Hall26. Archipelagic Feminism: Anglophone Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, Sarah PrescottPART IV. TRANSLINGUAL AND TRANSNATIONAL27. 'Mistresses of tongues': Early Modern Englishwomen, Multilingual Practice, and Translingual Communication, Brenda M. Hosington28. The Surplusage': Margaret Tyler and the Englishing of Spanish Chivalric Romance, Jake Arthur29. French Connections: English Women's Writing and Préciosité, Line Cottegnies30. Old England And New in Anne Bradstreet's Poetry, Peter Auger31. Early Modern Dutch and English Women Across Borders, Martine van Elk32. Political Theory Across Borders, Mihoko SuzukiPART V. NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES33. Networked Authorship in English Convents Abroad: The Writings of Lucy Knatchbull, Jaime Goodrich34. Gifts That Matter': Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Prayers Or Meditations (1545), Patricia Pender35. Elizabeth Melville: Protestant Poetics, Publication, and Propaganda, Sebastiaan Verweij36. Desire, Dreams, Disguise: The Letters of Elizabeth Bourne, Daniel Starza Smith and Leah Veronese37. Women's Letters and Cryptological Coteries, Nadine Akkerman38. Non-Elite Networks and Women, Susan Wiseman39. On the Picture of Ye Prisoner': Lucy Hutchinson and the Image of the Imprisoned King, Hero Chalmers40. The Topopoetics of Retirement in Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson, James Loxley41. Early Modern Women in Print, and Margaret Cavendish, Woman in Print, Liza BlakePART VI. TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES42. Editing Early Modern Women's Writing: Tradition and Innovation, Paul Salzman43. Reception, Reputation, and Afterlives, Marie-Louise Coolahan44. A Telescope for the Mind': Digital Modelling and Analysis of Early Modern Women's Writing, Julia Flanders45. Material Texts: Women's Paperwork in Early Modern England and Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Anna Reynolds46. Memory and Matter: Lady Anne Clifford's 'Life of Mee', Patricia Phillippy47. Early Modern Women, Race, and Writing Revisited, Bernadette Andrea48. Touches Across Time: Queer Feminism, Early Modern Studies, and Aemilia Lanyer's 'Rich Chains', Erin Murphy49. Untimely Developments: Periodisation, Early Modern Women's Writing, and Literary History, Michelle M. Dowd
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