Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain
Title | Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah C. E. Ross |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198724209 |
Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women, offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England, this volume explores women's political articulation in the devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse, elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars.
Conspiracy and Virtue
Title | Conspiracy and Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wiseman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2006-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199205124 |
What was the relationship between woman and politics in 17th century England? Responding to this question, this work argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. It is a study of gender and cultural politics in the century of revolution.
Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain
Title | Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | C. Gray |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2007-07-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230605567 |
This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.
English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | George Parfitt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2014-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317896696 |
Provides a comprehensive and entertaining account of the vitality and variety of achievement in seventeenth-century English poetry. Revised and up-dated throughout, Dr Parfitt has added new material on poets as varied as Marvell and Traherne. There is also a completely new chapter on women poets of the seventeenth century which considers the significant contributions of writers such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish. The proven quality and success of Dr Parfitt's survey makes this the essential companion for the teacher and student of seventeenth-century verse.
Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Title | Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Carme Font |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317231384 |
This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it. While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our particular knowledge of women’s prophecy in the seventeenth century with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the first place, and what are the differences and similarities between texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and believers.
Women poets of the English Civil War
Title | Women poets of the English Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah C. E. Ross |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526125048 |
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets’ work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women’s poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women’s poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.
Early modern women and the poem
Title | Early modern women and the poem PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wiseman |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2016-05-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 152611089X |
Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women’s lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The archival and theoretical research on literary authorship, textual transmission and socio-literary networks invites a re-examination of the production and reception of poetry, and alters our understanding of the way poetry participated in social, literary and political life. The volume takes account of the expansion and changes to the canon of women’s poetry and emerging research on key aspects of literary production and reception. It builds on and responds to both recent critical emphasis on literary form and on archival scholarship in women’s writing, understanding the two emphases to be mutually informative. This book explores the way women understood the poem, examines how the poem was shared, circulated and rewritten, and traces its path through wider social relations. It will appeal to any scholar of literature and gender working in Renaissance and seventeenth century studies.