Forms of engagement : women, poetry and culture 1640-1680 / Elizabeth Scott-Baumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth, 1982-

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford English monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Forms of Engagement' sheds light on questions of poetic form in women's poetry. It traces the influences on the work of Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, and Margaret Cavendish, allowing readers to understand better both how women composed their poems and how they engaged with their contemporaries.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Notes on the Text; Introduction: Reading, Gender, and Form; 1. Margaret Cavendish: Nature and Originality; 2. Margaret Cavendish as Editor and Reviser; 3. Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley: Solitude, Dialogue, and the Ode; 4. Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson Reading John Donne; 5. Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies, the Country-House Poem, and Female Complaint; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible, and Order and Disorder; Afterword: Untracked Paths; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 3, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-166422-7

OCLC:

922972161