Re-Reading Mary Wroth [electronic resource] /
Larson, K.editor.
Miller, N.editor.
Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Re-Reading Mary Wroth: Networks of Knowing / Katherine R. Larson, Naomi J. Miller, and Andrew Strycharski -- PART I: RE-EXAMINING WROTH: AUTHORSHIP, LIFE, AND SOCIETY -- One. Sleuthing in the Archives: The Life of Lady Mary Wroth / Margaret P. Hannay -- Two. Authorship and Author-Characters in Sidney and Wroth / Barbara K. Lewalski -- Three. "Can you suspect a change in me?": Poems by Mary Wroth and William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Four. Performing "fitter means": Marriage and Authorship in Love's Victory / Beverly M. Van Note -- PART II: RE-MEASURING WROTH: FORM AND RITUAL -- Five. Turn and Counter-Turn: Reappraising Mary Wroth's Poetic Labyrinths / Clare R. Kinney --
Six. Measuring Authorship: Framing Forms, Genres, and Authors in Urania / Kristiane Stapleton -- Seven. Voicing Lyric: The Songs of Mary Wroth / Katherine R. Larson -- Eight. "Change Partners and Dance": Pastoral Virtuosity in Wroth's Love's Victory / Karen L. Nelson -- Nine. Gifts of Fruit and Marriage Feasts in Mary Wroth's Urania / Madeline Bassnett -- PART III: RE-MEDIATING WROTH: EDITING AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES -- Ten. The Autograph Manuscript of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Ilona Bell -- Eleven. Me and My Shadow: Editing Wroth for the Digital Age / Paul Salzman -- Twelve. Pamphilia Unbound: Digital Re-visions of Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript, V.a.104 / Rebecca L. Fall -- Thirteen. Crowdsourcing the Urania: Lady Mary Wroth and Twenty-First-Century Technology / Sheila T. Cavanagh --
PART IV: RE-MIXING WROTH: BEYOND THE ACADEMY -- Fourteen. Curating Mary Wroth / Georgianna Ziegler -- Fifteen. Strange Labyrinths: Wroth, Higher Education, and the Humanities / Nona Fienberg -- Sixteen. "To beeleeve this but a fiction and dunn to please and pass the time": Re-Imagining Mary Wroth and William Herbert in Feigning Poetry / Gary Waller -- Seventeen. Re-Imagining the Subject: Traveling from Scholarship to Fiction with Mary Wroth / Naomi J. Miller.
Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction.
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—History and criticism.
Sociology.
British literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
Gender Studies.
British and Irish Literature.