Carol Barash

English Women's Poetry, 1649 - 1714

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Produktbeschreibung

This study reconstructs the political origins of English women's poetry between the execution of Charles I and the death of Queen Anne. Drawing on extensive archival research in England and the United States, Barash argues that ideas about women's voices and women's communities were crucial to the shaping of an English national literature after the civil wars. Women entered print culture--as poets and as women--by situating their writing in defence of embattled monarchy. In particular, Barash points to women poets' fascination with the figure of the female monarch (both real and mythic). Their sense of poetic legitimacy derives from the communities they generate around figures of female authority, particularly James II's second wife, Mary of Modena, and later Queen Anne. Writers discussed include Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Anne Killigrew, Jane Barker, and Anne Finch.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186861
• ISBN-10: 019818686X
• Artikelnr.: 22380131

Autorenporträt

Carol Barash was formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction;
* PART 1: ORIGINS
* English and Continental Origins: Queens, Heroes, Prophets;
* Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philip's Society of
Friendship;
* Eros, Myth, and Monarchy in Aphra Behn;
* PART II: ELABORATIONS
* The Female Monarch and the Woman Poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew
and Jane Barker;
* Queen Anne among the Poets;
* Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self;
* CONCLUSION;
* Appendices
* Order of poems in Katherine Philip's manuscripts and Poems;
* Lucasia poems in approximate order of events described;
* Anne Killigrew's paintings;
* John Chatwin's 'To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew. A
Pindarique'.
* Order of poems in Jane Barker, Political recreations (1688);
* Order of poems in Magdalen College MS. 343, Barker's 'Poems on
Several Occasions, in 3 Parts';
* 'An Elegy on the Death of K. James'.
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index