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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah C. E. Ross (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Victoria University of Wellington)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780198724209ISBN 10: 0198724209 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 26 February 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: She thinks not on the state? 1: 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics 2: 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse 3: 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse 4: 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems 5: 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ConclusionsReviewsAs she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study. Erin Murphy, Review of English Studies As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study. * Erin Murphy, Review of English Studies * Women, Poetry, and Politics is a well organised, illustrated, and informed examination * Janet Hadley Williams, Parergon * This book serves as a bold and expert guide towards unearthing the features of this fascinating tradition. * Patricia Phillippy, Modern Language Review * Sarah C. E. Ross's Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain is a rich, exciting, and erudite study that significantly advances our understanding of the multitudinous ways in which seventeenth-century English women used writing to convey political perspectives ... Among other achievements, Ross's study impressively demonstrates the synchronous relationship among religious, familial, and political discourse at this time ... And overall, Ross's study delivers on its promise that investigating women's manuscript poetry will reveal a new understanding of women's altering relationship to the literary and to the political in seventeenth-century Britain (6). * Katharine Gillespie, Early Modern Women Journal * As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study. Erin Murphy, Review of English Studies Women, Poetry, and Politics is a well organised, illustrated, and informed examination Janet Hadley Williams, Parergon As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study. Erin Murphy, Review of English Studies Women, Poetry, and Politics is a well organised, illustrated, and informed examination Janet Hadley Williams, Parergon This book serves as a bold and expert guide towards unearthing the features of this fascinating tradition. Patricia Phillippy, Modern Language Review Author InformationSarah C. E. Ross is Senior Lecturer in English at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: British Library, Additional Manuscript 4454 (ACMRS, 2011), and the author of numerous articles and chapters on early modern women's writing and manuscript culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |