World-making renaissance women : rethinking early modern women's place in literature and culture / Pamela Hammons, University of Miami and Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University.
Introduction: Margaret Cavendish's melancholy identity : gender and the evolution of a genre / Tina Skouen, Henriette Kolle. Early modern women framing the modern world. Erotic origins : Genesis, the passion, and Aemilia Lanyer's queer temporality / Erin Murphy -- Aphra Behn's fiction : transmission, editing, and canonization / Paul Salzman -- From aisling vision to Irish queen : the re-emergence of Gráinne Ní Mháille in Europe's revolutionary period / Brandie R. Siegfried -- Reframing the picture : screening early modern women for modern audiences / Naomi J. Miller, Lisa Walters -- Remaking the literary world. Uncloseted : geography and early modern women's dramatic writing / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs as autobiography / Laura De Furio -- Commonplace genres, or women's interventions in non-traditional literary forms : Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the maxim / Victoria E. Burke -- Form, formalism, and literary studies : the case of Margaret Cavendish / Laura Dodds -- Connecting the social worlds of religion, politics, and philosophy. Royalism and resistance : the personal and the political in Anne, Lady Halkett's Meditations, 1660-1699 / Suzanne Trill -- Hester Pulter's dissolving worlds / Marshelle Woodward -- Feminist worlds of Margaret Cavendish / David Cunning -- "Augustus reigns, but poets still are low" : Aphra Behn's world in the The Emperor of the moon (1687) / Elaine Hobby -- Rethinking early modern types and stereotypes. Learning to initiate women : male education and the grammar of female experience / Catherine Loomis -- Mothers and widows : world making against stereotypes in early modern English women's manuscript writings / Pamela S. Hammons -- Queer virgins : nuns, reproductive futurism, and early modern English culture / Jaime Goodrich -- Defensor feminae : Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Margaret Cavendish's melancholy identity : gender and the evolution of a genre / Tina Skouen, Henriette Kolle.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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