Early modern women's complaint : gender, form, and politics / Sarah C. E. Ross, Rosalind Smith, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Sarah C. E.

Smith, Rosalind, 1968-

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Early modern literature in history (Palgrave (Firm))

Early modern literature in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Complaints (Rhetoric).

English literature--Women authors.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Beyond Ovid: Early Modern Women's Complaint

Forms of Complaint: Mode, Genre, Voice

Complaint and the Early Modern Woman Writer: Religion, Politics, and the Marketplace

Ovid and Beyond

Conclusion

Part I: Sixteenth Century

Chapter 2: Anne Lock and the Instructive Complaint

Chapter 3: Katherine Parr and Royal Religious Complaint: Complaining For and About Henry VIII

Katherine Parr's Psalms or Prayers as Religious Complaint

Parr's Psalms or Prayers, Wartime Complaint, and Rogation Days

Ventriloquizing Henry: Complaining for and as Henry VIII

"I Will Publish to Other Thy Fidelity": Parr's Rhetorical Agency and the Process of Redress

Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner and the First Edwardian Parliament

"A Christian Complaint": Complaining About Henry VIII and Celebrating the Power of Grace

Parr's Rhetorical Agency and the Process of Redress: Exemplarity, Prayer, and Threat

Chapter 4: "Ane Wyfis Quarrel": Complaining Women in Scottish Reformation Satire

Chapter 5: The Brief Ovidian Career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian Complaint

The Ovidian Cursus in Mid-Tudor Thought

Whitney's Life and Works

Whitney's Heroidean Engagements

Whitney's Tristian Turn

Exile and Error in A Sweet Nosgay

Conclusions

Part II: Seventeenth Century

Chapter 6: Acts of Will: Countersovereignty and Complaining in The Tragedy of Mariam

Complaining Beyond Reason

Willing Beyond Bounds

Countersovereignty Beyond Constancy

Chapter 7: The Politics of Complaint in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and The Second Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Chapter 8: Animating Eve: Gender, Authority, and Complaint

Chapter 9: Complaint's Echoes

Milton's Comus: The Lady and "Sweet Echo"

Hester Pulter's Sympathy of Woes

Sympathy's the Echo to Her Song

Part III: Restoration

Chapter 10: Aphra Behn's "Oenone to Paris," John Dryden, and the Ovidian Complaint in Restoration Literary Culture

John Dryden in Ovid's Epistles

Aphra Behn in Ovid's Epistles

Conclusion

Chapter 11: Complaint in the Wilderness: Mary Rowlandson Speaks With Job

Voicing Complaint: Job and Moses

Complaint Heard and Unheard: Publication, Audience, and Record

Chapter 12: Anne Killigrew and the Restoration of Complaint

Part IV: Representing Complaint: New Digital Forms

Chapter 13: From Manuscripts to Metadata: Understanding and Structuring Female-Attributed Complaints

Designing the RECIRC Database

Female-Attributed Poetry at the Elizabethan Court

Gender Trouble: Hypothetical, Anonymous, and Deceased Women

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9783030429461

3030429466

Publisher Number:

40030099355

10.1007/978-3-030-42

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