Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730
Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print
By Gillian Wright | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
About the book
Producing Women s Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address women s complex use of manuscript and print and their relationships with the male-generated genres of the traditional literary canon as well as the role of agents such as scribes publishers and editors in helping to determine how women s poetry was preserved circulated and remembered. Wright focuses on key figures in the emerging canon of early modern women s writing Anne Bradstreet Katherine Philips and Anne Finch alongside the work of lesser-known poets Anne Southwell and Mary Monck to create a new and compelling account of early modern women s literary history.
Editions of Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107037922
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781107566774
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Producing Women s Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address women s complex use of manuscript and print and their relationships with the male-generated genres of the traditional literary canon as well as the role of agents such as scribes publishers and editors in helping to determine how women s poetry was preserved circulated and remembered. Wright focuses on key figures in the emerging canon of early modern women s writing Anne Bradstreet Katherine Philips and Anne Finch alongside the work of lesser-known poets Anne Southwell and Mary Monck to create a new and compelling account of early modern women s literary history.
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Producing Women s Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address women s complex use of manuscript and print and their relationships with the male-generated genres of the traditional literary canon as well as the role of agents such as scribes publishers and editors in helping to determine how women s poetry was preserved circulated and remembered. Wright focuses on key figures in the emerging canon of early modern women s writing Anne Bradstreet Katherine Philips and Anne Finch alongside the work of lesser-known poets Anne Southwell and Mary Monck to create a new and compelling account of early modern women s literary history.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Gillian Wright
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Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730 is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107037922) and paperback(ISBN 9781107566774)