Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367530778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Marie-Louise Coolahan; Gillian Wright

Opis

This book analyses the work of the literary pioneer Katherine Phillips. It includes literary-historical analyses of her use of form and genre, as well as theoretical, archipelagic and digital humanities approaches to her work. This book was first published as two special issues of Women’s Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Can a Woman Deserve the Name of Enemy? Gender, War and Law in Katherine Philips’s Corneille Translations  2. Katherine Philips’s French Translations: Between Mediation and Appropriation  3. Hermeticism in the Poetry of Katherine Philips  4. Katherine Philips, Richard Marriot and the Contemporary Significance of Poems. By the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664)  5. Making the Case for Artaban: Robert Leigh, Katherine Philips and the Court of Claims  6. "You Who in Your Selves Do Comprehend All": Notes Towards a Study of Queer Union in Katherine Philips and John Milton  7. "I Long to Know Your Opinion of It": The Serendipity of a Malfunctioning Timing Belt or the Guiney–Tutin Collaboration in the Recovery of Katherine Philips  8. The Couplet and the Poem: Late Seventeenth-Century Women Reading Katherine Philips  9. "Behold this Creature’s Form and State": Katherine Philips and the Early Ascendancy  10. Katherine Philips’s Elegies and Historical Figuration  11. Memorial Culture and the Kinship of Friendship in Katherine Philips’s "Wiston Vault"  12. A Computational Approach to the Poetry of Katherine Philips

O autorze

Marie-Louise Coolahan is Professor of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (2010), and is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700.

Gillian Wright is Reader in English and Irish Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print (2013), and she is currently editing a collection of Aphra Behn’s poetry for Cambridge University Press.