Material cultures of early modern women's writing
By: edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781137342423
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Women authors; Literature publishing; History; Women and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Description: "This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received, focusing 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.  In doing so, Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing offers an account of the ways in which cultural mediation shapes our interpretations of early modern women's texts. The collection draws upon recent concepts of publication as 'event' - multiple, choral and occurring across different modes and times - in order to expand our conception of who early modern women writers were, how they wrote and circulated their texts, and how the reception of their work over time determines who and what is read now. Collectively, the essays in this book challenge not only how we read, analyse and value early modern women's writing, but also our understanding of the production, transmission, and reception of early modern literature more broadly"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction - Early Modern Women's Material Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception; Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith; title: 1. Women and the Materials of Writing; Helen Smith; title: 2. Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr's Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus; Patricia Pender; title: 3. 'Le pouvoir de faire dire': Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots' Book of Hours; Rosalind Smith; title: 4. Translation and Community in the Work of Elizabeth Cary; Deborah Uman; title: 5. The 'great Queen of Lightninge flashes': the Transmission of Female-voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century; Michelle O'Callaghan; title: 6. 'Philo-Philippa' as Author-reader; Kate Lilley; title: 7. Late Seventeenth-century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity; Margaret J.M. Ezell; title: 8. Henrietta's Version: Mary Wroth's Love's Victory in the Nineteenth Century; Paul Salzman; title: 9. 'One of the finest Poems of that nature I ever read': Quantitative Methodologies and the Reception of Early Modern Women's Writing; Marie-Louise Coolahan; title: Bibliography; title: Index.