World-Making Renaissance Women (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture
Redaktion: Hammons, Pamela S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women's influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108924382
• Artikelnr.: 66183665

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; The literary contours of women's world-making Brandie R.
Siegfried and Pamela S. Hammons; Part I. Early Modern Women Framing the
Modern World: 1. Erotic origins: genesis, the passion, and Aemilia Lanyer's
Queer temporality Erin Murphy; 2. Aphra Behn's fiction: transmission,
editing, and canonization Paul Salzman; 3. From aisling vision to Irish
queen: the reimergence of Gráinne Ní Mháille in Europe's revolutionary
period Brandie R. Siegfried; 4. Reframing the picture: screening early
modern women for modern audiences Lisa Walters and Naomi Miller; Part II.
Remaking the Literary World: 5. Uncloseted: geography and early modern
women's dramatic writing Marion Wynne-Davies; 6. Lucy Hutchinson's memoirs
as auto-biography Laura DeFurio; 7. Commonplace genres, or women's
interventions in non-traditional literary forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra
Behn, and the maxim Victoria E. Burke; 8. Form, formalism, and literary
studies: the case of Margaret Cavendish Lara Dodds; Part III. Connecting
the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy: 9. Royalism and
resistance: the personal and the political in Anne, Lady Halkett's
Meditations, 1660-1699 Suzanne Trill; 10. Hester Pulter's dissolving worlds
Marshelle Woodward; 11. The feminist worlds of Margaret Cavendish David
Cunning; 12. Augustus reigns, but poets still are low: Aphra Behn's world
in the emperor of the moon (1687) Elaine Hobby; Part IV. Rethinking Early
Modern Types and Stereotypes: 13. Learning to imitate women: male education
and the grammar of female experience Catherine Loomis; 14. Mothers and
widows: world-making against stereotypes in early modern English women's
manuscript writings Pamela Hammons; 15. Queer virgins: nuns, reproductive
futurism, and early modern English culture Jaime Goodrich; 16. Defensor
Feminae: Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght Elizabeth Hodgson; 17. Margaret
Cavendish's Melancholy identity: gender and the evolution of a Genre Tina
Skouen and Henriette Kolle.