Subjectivity and women's poetry in early modern England
Subtitle: why on the ridge should she desire to go?
By: Lynette McGrath.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 6-1639 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Whitney, Isabella -- Criticism and interpretation.; Lanyer, Aemilia -- Criticism and interpretation.; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Subjectivity in literature.; Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Subject in the Margin. Women and Poetry in Early Modem England 1 2 The Flesh. The Other Body: Women's Physical Images 35 3 The Word. Secret Pleasures: Women's Literacy and Learning 77 4 Isabella Whitney. The Printed Subject: Print, Power and Abjection in The Copy of a Letter and A Sweet Nosgay 123 5 Elizabeth Cary. The Nomadic Subject: Space and Mobility in the Life and Mariam 167 6 Aemilia Lanyer. The Feminist Subject: Idealization and Subversive Metaphor in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 209 7 Epilogue 251.