Title English women's poetry, 1649-1714 : politics, community, and linguistic authority / Carol Barash

Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations Contents English and continental origins: queens, heroes, prophets -- Gender, prophecy, and women's place in the Restoration -- The heroic woman -- Gender and the Restoration stage -- The marriage of king and people -- The performance of gender at the late Stuart court -- The female war -- Women's community and the exiled king: Katherine Philips's society of friendship -- Royalism and the heroic woman -- The self-fashioning of the Restoration woman writer -- Narratives of love and warfare in Philips's 1650s manuscript -- Courting political favour -- The publication of poems (1664) -- Marriage, friendship, and honour Eros, myth, and monarchy in Aphra Behn -- Gender, myth, and translation -- Gender, authority, and the female sexual subject -- Desire and the uncoupling of myth in Behn's erotic poems -- The woman poet and the female monarch -- The female monarch and the woman poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew, and Jane Barker -- The imaginary underworld of Mary of Modena's court -- The woman painter and the female hero -- Anne Killigrew as linguistic and political subject at court -- Jane Barker's genres and the late Stuart court -- Poetical recreations -- Barker's landscape of the female body -- Female linguistic authority and the coronation of Orinda Commands from underground: Barker's manuscript poems -- Queen Anne among the poets -- The glorious revolution as bourgeois marriage -- Queen Anne's two bodies -- Anne's dutiful daughters -- The limits of feminist imperialism -- Anne Finch: gender, politics, and myths of the private self -- Anne Finch and the Catholic Stuarts -- The publicly private Finch and miscellany poems -- Female community and female authority -- Finch's female poetic genealogy Summary This study reconstructs the political origins of English women's poetry, showing that the women's poetic tradition developed as part of the larger political shifts between 1649 and 1714. Women poets were particularly fascinated with the female monarch Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History Language and culture -- Great Britain -- History Authority in literature. Sex role in literature. Queens in literature. Authority in literature English poetry -- Early modern English poetry -- Women authors Feminism and literature Language and culture Politics and literature Queens in literature Sex role in literature Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191674587 0191674583

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