Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern England: Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go?
Subtitle: Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go?
By: Lynnette McGrath
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781315182988
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English poetry; History and criticism; Women and literature; History; Women authors; Subjectivity in literature; Self in literature; Femmes et littérature; Histoire; Subjectivité dans la littérature; Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature; POETRY; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Early modern
Description: "This title was first published in 2002: Combining the approaches of historic scholarship and post-structural, feminist psychoanalytic theory to late 16th- and early 17th-century poetry by women, this book aims to make a unique contribution to the field of the study of early modern women's writings. One of the first to concentrate exclusively on early modern women's poetry, the full-length critical study to applies post-Lacanian French psychoanalytic theory to the genre. The strength of this study is that it merges analysis of socio-political constructions affecting early modern women poets writing in England with the psychoanalytic insights, specific to women as subjects, of post-Lacanian theorists Luce Irigaray, Helen Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Rosi Braidotti."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Subject in the Margin. Women and Poetry in Early Modem England; title: chapter 2 The Flesh. The Other Body: Women's Physical Images; title: chapter 3 The Word. Secret Pleasures: Women's Literacy and Learning; title: chapter 4 Isabella Whitney. The Printed Subject: Print, Power and Abjection in The Copy ofa Letter and A Sweet Nosgay; title: chapter 5 Elizabeth Cary. The Nomadic Subject: Space and Mobility in the Life and Mariam; title: chapter 6 Aemilia Lanyer. The Feminist Subject: Idealization and Subversive Metaphor in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; title: chapter 7 Epilogue.