W Scott Howard

An Collins and the Historical Imagination. Edited by W. Scott Howard

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Produktbeschreibung

The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance of an important religious and political poet from seventeenth-century England. An Collins and the Historical Imagination celebrates Collins's writing within her own time and ours through a comprehensive assessment of her poetics, literary, religious and political contexts, critical reception, and scholarly tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781472418470
• ISBN-10: 1472418476
• Artikelnr.: 45513351

Autorenporträt

W. Scott Howard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Denver, USA. He is the founding editor of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Imagining An Collins
1. An Collins: Fiction and Artifact
2. Meditation and Rhetoric in "The Discourse"
3. An Collins and the Disabled Self
4. The "finenesse" of Devotional Poetry: An Collins and the School of Herbert
5. Garden and Antigarden in the Song of Songs and Divine Songs and Meditacions
6. Bearing Their Crosses with Alacrity: An Collins and Marie de l'Incarnation
7. An Collins and the Life of Writing
8. "[T]ouching the ground of Truth": An Collins and Sectarian Spiritual Autobiography
9. The "image of her mind": Self
Dissent
and Femininity in Divine Songs and Meditacions
10. The Collins Legacy: Representations by Scholars and Editors Since 1653
Afterword
Appendix A: "An dearest" volume: Richard Bishop's Divine Songs and Meditacions
Appendix B: "Another Song. The Winter of my infancy"
Bibliography
Index