Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent

ISBN-13: 9781032202853 / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

Marie H. Loughlin

Opis

In the intersection of ancestry, death, sexuality, and reproduction, this book contends that Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth develop their authorship within the simultaneous rigidity and flexibility of their world’s genealogical discourses.

Spis treści

Introduction: Living in a Genealogical Age: Women and the Early Modern Cultures of Ancestry

1. Mary Sidney Herbert’s Genealogical Cultures: Family, Household, Community

2. In the Hands of Others: Mary Sidney Herbert as Morientis Imago Philippi

3. Abraham Fraunce’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Ivychurch (1591, 1592) and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Mythographic Genealogical Communities

4. Revising Reproduction, Descent, and Midwifery in Thomas Moffet’s The Silkewormes, and their Flies (1599)

5. In Her Own Hands: Mary Sidney Herbert’s "To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney"

6. Mary Sidney Wroth’s Genealogical Cultures: Family, Household, Community

7. In the Hands of Others: Mary Sidney Wroth’s Genealogical Imagining

8. Ordinary Remembering, Confusing, and Forgetting in Urania’s Genealogical Archive

9. Extraordinary Remembering and Forgetting at the Urania’s Leucadian Rock

Conclusion: Whither Genealogy?

O autorze

Marie H. Loughlin is an associate professor of English literature in the department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. She has published in the areas of early modern women’s writing, drama, concepts of the body, and sexuality.