Subjectivity and women's poetry in early modern England : "why on the ridge should she desire to go?" / Lynette McGrath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrath, Lynette.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lanyer, Aemilia.

Whitney, Isabella.

Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry--Women authors.

Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639--Criticism and interpretation.

Cary, Elizabeth.

Whitney, Isabella--Criticism and interpretation.

Lanyer, Aemilia--Criticism and interpretation.

Subjectivity in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 The Subject in the Margin - Women and Poetry in Early Modern England 1

2 The Flesh - The Other Body: Women's Physical Images 35

3 The Word - Secret Pleasures: Women's Literacy and Learning 77

4 Isabella Whitney - The Printed Subject: Print, Power and Abjection in The Copy of a Letter and A Sweet Nosgay 123

5 Elizabeth Cary - The Nomadic Subject: Space and Mobility in the Life and Mariam 167

6 Aemilia Lanyer - The Feminist Subject: Idealization and Subversive Metaphor in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

075460585X

OCLC:

48053905