Write or be written
Subtitle: early modern women poets and cultural constraints
By: edited by Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt.
Contributors: Smith, Barbara, 1949 Dec. 28-; Appelt, Ursula.
Series: [Women and gender in early modern England, 1500-1750]
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.; Women in literature.; Sex role in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series statement on jacket.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I: Strategies and Contexts; title: 1. Widow, Prophet, and Poet: Lyrical Self-Figurations in Katherine Austen's 'Book M' (1664); title: Pamela Hammons; title: 2. 'Public' and 'Private' in Aphra Behn's Miscellanies: Women Writers, Print, and Manuscript; title: Anme Russell; title: 3. 'Household Affaires are the Opium of the Soul': Darnaris Masham and the Necessity of Women's Poetry; title: Margaret J. M. Ezell; title: II: Poetic Conventions and Traditions; title: 4. Mary Wroth's Guilty 'secrett art': The Poetics of Jeadousy in Pamphilia to Anphilanthus; title: Clare R. Kinney; title: 5. 'An Emblem of Themselves, in Plum or Pear': Poetry, the Female Body and the Country House; title: Jacqueline Pearson; title: 6 'So May I With the Psalmist Truly Say': Early Modern Englishwomen's Psalm Discourse; title: Margaret P- Hannay; title: III: Negotiating Power and Politics; title: 7. The Plural Voices of Anne Askew; title: Joan Pong Linton; title: 8. Mary Sidney and Gendered Strategies for the Writing of Poetry; title: Shannon Miller; title: 9. 'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry; title: Andrew Shfflett; title: IV: Writing the Female Poet; title: 10. 'First Fruits of a Woman's Wit': Authorial Self-Construction of English Renaissance Women Poets; title: Helen Wilcox; title: 11. A Rhetoric of Innocence: The Poetry of Katherine Philips, 'The Matchless Orinda'; title: Bronwen Price; title: 12. 'Very Like a Fiction': Some Early Biographies of Aphra Behn; title: Jeslyn Medoff.