Write or be written : early modern women poets and cultural constraints /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., c2001.
Description:	xxiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century. Feminist poetry -- History and criticism. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. English poetry -- Early modern. English poetry -- Women authors. Feminism and literature. Feminist poetry, English. Literature and society. Sex role in literature. Women and literature. Women in literature. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4439966

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Other authors / contributors:	Smith, Barbara, 1947 April 19- Appelt, Ursula.
ISBN:	184014288X (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Strategies and Contexts
1.. Widow, Prophet, and Poet: Lyrical Self-Figurations in Katherine Austen's 'Book M' (1664)
2.. 'Public' and 'Private' in Aphra Behn's Miscellanies: Women Writers, Print, and Manuscript
3.. 'Household Affaires are the Opium of the Soul': Damaris Masham and the Necessity of Women's Poetry
II. Poetic Conventions and Traditions
4.. Mary Wroth's Guilty 'secrett art': The Poetics of Jealousy in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
5.. 'An Emblem of Themselves, in Plum or Pear': Poetry, the Female Body and the Country House
6.. 'So May I With the Psalmist Truly Say': Early Modern Englishwomen's Psalm Discourse
III. Negotiating Power and Politics
7.. The Plural Voices of Anne Askew
8.. Mary Sidney and Gendered Strategies for the Writing of Poetry
9.. 'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry
IV. Writing the Female Poet
10.. 'First Fruits of a Woman's Wit': Authorial Self-Construction of English Renaissance Women Poets
11.. A Rhetoric of Innocence: The Poetry of Katherine Philips, 'The Matchless Orinda'
12.. 'Very Like a Fiction': Some Early Biographies of Aphra Behn
Notes on Contributors
Index

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