Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium

ISBN-13: 9781138257481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str.

Jonathan Gibson; Victoria E. Burke

Opis

Emphasizing manuscript writings in English and their social, political, and religious contexts, the contributors to this collection challenge commonly held notions about women's writing in the early modern period, and bring to light many women whose work has not been considered before.

Recenzje

'... an important contribution to the growing field of manuscript studies... an impressive range of writers and texts...' Early Modern Literary Studies '... beautifully produced... provide[s] fascinating empirical studies of specific cases... usefully expand[s] our understanding of women's lived experience in early modern England.' Renaissance Quarterly 'The essays included in this volume, most of them based on original archival research, illustrate the surprising heterogeneity of women's writing in manuscript during this period - poems, devotional tracts, translations, letters, commonplace books, collections of recipes - and [...] implicitly challenge the conventional distinction between 'public' and 'private' writing... several [essays] are particularly valuable in the way they present familiar material, making the results of archival research available, with illuminating commentary...' The Library '... the kind of archival material that escaped notice over centuries in boxes labelled (literally or figuratively) 'of no importance', the collection makes for absorbing reading, largely because the contributors so effectively combine their expert studies of manuscript texts with a complex and engaging analysis of relevant historical contexts in their efforts to make the contributions of early modern women more fully visible... Overall, the volume constitutes a fine contribution to the present extraordinary renaissance in the study of early modern women's writing.' Universtiy of Toronto Quarterly

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; 'Desiring women writing': female voices and courtly 'balets' in some early Tudor manuscript albums, Elizabeth Heale; Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the crucified Christ, Jonathan Gibson; Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: poetry, politics and protestantism, Jane Stevenson; Reading friends: women's participation in 'masculine' literary culture, Victoria E. Burke; Caitlín Dubh's Keens: literary negotiations in early modern Ireland, Marie-Louise Coolahan; Lady Anne Southwell's indictment of Adam, Erica Longfellow; Reading bells and loose papers: reading and writing practices of the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris, Heather Wolfe; The notebooks of Rachael Fane: education for authorship?, Caroline Bowden; 'And Trophes of his praises make': providence and poetry in Katherine Austen's Book M, 1664-1668, Sarah Ross; The books, manuscripts and literary patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670), Arnold Hunt; Perfecting practice? Women, manuscript recipes and knowledge in early modern England, Sara Pennell; 'Often to my Self I make my mone': early modern women's poetry from the Feilding Family, Alison Shell; Index.

O autorze

Victoria E. Burke is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Jonathan Gibson has held lectureships in English at Queen Mary, University of London and the universities of Exeter and Durham. He is currently Research Fellow at the Perdita Project, University of Warwick.