The Cambridge Edition of Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

ISBN-13: 9781107068605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 980 str.

Anne Finch; Anne Kingsmill Finc Winchilsea; Jennifer Keith

Opis

This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. This first volume provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books, including Poems on Several Subjects and Miscellany Poems with Two Plays written under her pen name, Ardelia.

Recenzje

'Henceforth, no scholar of Anne Finch's poetry can write about her oeuvre without studying these two volumes.' Ellen Moody, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith; Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith; From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript); Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript); Some peices out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso; The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: a tragecomedy; Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: a tragedy; Aditional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral; Explanatory and textual notes; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.