Title Write or be written : early modern women poets and cultural constraints / edited by Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt

Published Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001] ©2001

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Description xxiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Women and gender in early modern England, 1500-1750 Women and gender in early modern England, 1500-1750. Contents Machine generated contents note: I: Strategies and Contexts -- 1. Widow, Prophet, and Poet: Lyrical Self-Figurations in Katherine Austen's 'Book M' (1664) -- Pamela Hammons -- 2. 'Public' and 'Private' in Aphra Behn's Miscellanies: Women Writers, Print, and Manuscript -- Anme Russell -- 3. 'Household Affaires are the Opium of the Soul': Darnaris Masham and the Necessity of Women's Poetry -- Margaret J. M. Ezell -- II: Poetic Conventions and Traditions -- 4. Mary Wroth's Guilty 'secrett art': The Poetics of Jeadousy in Pamphilia to Anphilanthus -- Clare R. Kinney -- 5. 'An Emblem of Themselves, in Plum or Pear': Poetry, the Female Body and the Country House -- Jacqueline Pearson -- 6 'So May I With the Psalmist Truly Say': Early Modern Englishwomen's Psalm Discourse -- Margaret P- Hannay -- III: Negotiating Power and Politics -- 7. The Plural Voices of Anne Askew -- Joan Pong Linton -- 8. Mary Sidney and Gendered Strategies for the Writing of Poetry -- Shannon Miller -- 9. 'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry -- Andrew Shfflett -- IV: Writing the Female Poet -- 10. 'First Fruits of a Woman's Wit': Authorial Self-Construction of English Renaissance Women Poets -- Helen Wilcox -- 11. A Rhetoric of Innocence: The Poetry of Katherine Philips, 'The Matchless Orinda' -- Bronwen Price -- 12. 'Very Like a Fiction': Some Early Biographies of Aphra Behn -- Jeslyn Medoff Notes Series statement on jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Feminist poetry -- History and criticism. Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Author Appelt, Ursula. Smith, Barbara, 1949 December 28- LC no. 00048475 ISBN 184014288X (alk. paper)

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