World-making renaissance women : rethinking early modern women's place in literature and culture / Pamela Hammons, University of Miami, Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammons, Pamela S., editor.

Siegfried, Brandie R. (Brandie Renee), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--17th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Imaginary places in literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Women and literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women's influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping activities.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Literary Contours of Women's World-Making

Part I Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World

Chapter 1 Erotic Origins: Genesis, the Passion, and Aemilia Lanyer's Queer Temporality

Chapter 2 Aphra Behn's Fiction: Transmission, Editing, and Canonization

Chapter 3 From Aisling Vision to Irish Queen: The Re„-emergence„ of Gráinne Ní Mháille in Europe's Revolutionary Period

Chapter 4 Reframing the Picture: Screening Early Modern Women for Modern Audiences

Part II Remaking the Literary World

Chapter 5 Uncloseted: Geography and Early Modern Women's Dramatic Writing

Chapter 6 Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs as Autobiography

Chapter 7 Commonplace Genres, or Women's Interventions in Non-Traditional Literary Forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the Maxim

Chapter 8 Form, Formalism, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish

Part III Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy

Chapter 9 Royalism and Resistance: The Personal and the Political in Anne, Lady Halkett's Meditations, 1660-1699

Chapter 10 Hester Pulter's Dissolving Worlds

Chapter 11 The Feminist Worlds of Margaret Cavendish

Chapter 12 "Augustus Reigns, but Poets Still Are Low": Aphra Behn's World in The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

Part IV Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes

Chapter 13 Learning to Imitate Women: Male Education and the Grammar of Female Experience

Chapter 14 Mothers and Widows: World-Making against Stereotypes in Early Modern English Women's Manuscript Writings

Chapter 15 Queer Virgins: Nuns, Reproductive Futurism, and Early Modern English Culture

Chapter 16 Defensor Feminae: Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght.

Chapter 17 Margaret Cavendish's Melancholy Identity: Gender and the Evolution of a Genre

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Hammons, Pamela S. World-Making Renaissance Women

ISBN:

1-108-92438-7

1-108-91239-7

1-108-92338-0