Feminist formalism and early modern womens writing : readings conversations and pedagogies Part 1: Readings Taking the Thread of Mary Wroths A Crowne of Sonnets Dedicated to Love Jennifer Higginbotham Margaret Cavendishs Forms: Literary Formalism and the Figures of Margaret Cavendishs Atom Poems Liza Blake Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies Edith Snook Building s with Form: Dorothy Calthorpes Castle and Chapel Julie A. Eckerle Gendering the Emblem: Hester Pulters Formal Experimentation Victoria E. Burke Part 2: Conversations Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive Dianne Mitchell Mary Wroths Urania Manuscript: Poems in Their Proper Places Paul Salzman Katherine Philipss Monument: The Genre of Wiston Vault Stephen Guy Bray Formalism Dispossessed: Pulter Donne and the Obliviated Urn Marshelle Woodward Part 3: Pedagogies Collaborative Close Readings: Anne Vaughan Locks Sonnets in the Undergraduate Survey Course Lauren Shook Teaching Early Modern Womens Writing through Literary and Material Form Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich Shew my selfe a louing Mother and a dutifull Wife : Teaching the Modesty Trope in Early Modern Womens Texts in a Twenty first Century Classroom Margaret J.M. Ezell The Idea of a Woman : Teaching Gender and Poetic Form in Early Modern Elegy Sarah C.E. Ross Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom Andrew Black. This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern womens writing by exploring womens debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of womens texts in several different contexts