Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing [electronic resource] /
Pender, P.editor.
Smith, R.editor.
This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Early Modern Women's Material Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception; 1 Women and the Materials of Writing; 2 Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr's Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus; 3 'Le pouvoir de faire dire': Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots' Book of Hours; 4 Translation and Community in the Work of Elizabeth Cary; 5 The 'Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes': The Transmission of Female-Voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century
6 Katherine Philips, 'Philo-Philippa' and the Poetics of Association7 Late Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity; 8 Henrietta's Version: Mary Wroth's Love's Victory in the Nineteenth Century; 9 'One of the Finest Poems of that Nature I ever Read': Quantitative Methodologies and the Reception of Early Modern Women's Writing; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
History, Modern.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Modern History.
British and Irish Literature.