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Author:   Susan Wiseman
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9781526116840

ISBN 10:   1526116847
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 June 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Researching early modern women and the poem – Susan Wiseman Part I: Inheritance 1. Women’s poetry and classical authors: Lucy Hutchinson and the classicisation of scripture – Edward Paleit 2. Elizabeth Melville and the religious sonnet sequence in Scotland and England – Sarah CE Ross 3. The Sapphic sontext of Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus – Line Cottegnies 4. Women poets and men’s sentences: genre and literary tradition in Katherine Philips’s early poetry – Gillian Wright Part II: Circulation 5. ‘We thy Sydnean Psalmes shall celebrate’: collaborative authorship, Sidney’s Sister and the English devotional lyric – Suzanne Trill 6. ‘Mary Wroth and hermaphroditic circulation’ – Paul Salzman 7. Sisterhood and female friendship in Constance Aston Fowler’s verse miscellany – Helen Hackett 8. Late seventeenth-century women poets and the anxiety of attribution – Margaret JM Ezell Part III: Narrative 9. Rethinking authorial reluctance in the paratexts to Anne Bradstreet’s poetry – Patricia Pender 10. A ‘goodly sample’: exemplarity, female complaint and early modern women’s poetry – Ros Smith 11. ‘The nine-liv’d Sex’: women and justice in seventeenth-century popular poetry – Judith Hudson 12. ‘The contemplative woman’s recreation? Kaherine Austen ad the estate poem – Susan Wiseman Afterword: Reading and early modern women and the poem – Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith Index -- .

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‘Susan Wiseman’s edited collection Early Modern Women and the Poem, recently reissued in paperback, draws together twelve cohesive essays which ask in exciting ways ‘how women use poetry, and how poems use women’.’ Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies -- .

'Susan Wiseman's edited collection Early Modern Women and the Poem, recently reissued in paperback, draws together twelve cohesive essays which ask in exciting ways 'how women use poetry, and how poems use women'.' Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies -- .

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Susan Wiseman is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London

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