A History of Early Modern Women's Writing

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'sparkling multiplicity' Patricia Phillippy
Part I. Critical Approaches and Methodologies:
1. Invisibility optics: Aphra Behn, Esther Inglis and the fortunes of women's works Margaret J. M. Ezell
2. Reconsidering the woman writer: the identity politics of Anne Cooke Bacon Jaime L. Goodrich
3. The critical fortunes of the tenth muse: canonicity and its discontents Patricia Pender
4. When we swear to tell the truth: the Carleton Debates and archival methodology Megan Matchinske
Part II. The Tudor Era (1526–1603):
5. Common and competing faiths Susan M. Felch
6. Isabella Whitney's slips: poetry, collaboration, and coterie Dana E. Lawrence
7. Transmitting faith: Elizabeth Tudor, Anne Askew, and Jane Grey Elaine V. Beilin
8. Humanism, religion, and early modern Englishwomen in their transnational contexts Julie D. Campbell
9. Women in worship: continuity and change in the prayers of Elizabeth Tyrwhit and Frances Aburgavenny Micheline White
10. Spatial texts: women as devisers of environments and iconographies Peter Davidson
Part III. The Early Stuart Period (1603–42):
11. Aemilia Lanyer's radical art: 'The Passion of Christ' Pamela J. Benson
12. Memory, materiality and maternity in the Tanfield/Cary archive Ramona Wray
13. Mary Wroth romances Ovid: refiguring metamorphosis and complaint in The Countess of Montgomery's Urania Clare R. Kinney
14. Nuns' writing: translation, textual mobility and transnational networks Marie-Louise Coolahan
15. Motherhood and women's writing in early seventeenth-century England: legacies, catechisms, and popular polemic Paula McQuade
16. Monuments and memory Peter Sherlock
Part IV. Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration (1642–76):
17. Prophecy, power, and religious dissent W. Scott Howard
18. Coteries, circles, networks: the Cavendish Circle and Civil War women's writing Sarah C. E. Ross
19. Inventing fame Jane B. Stevenson
20. Political writing across borders Mihoko Suzuki
21. English women's writing and indigenous medical knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world Edith Snook
22. Lady Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record: remembrances of a dynasty Jessica L. Malay.