1st Edition

Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

Edited By Marie-Louise Coolahan, Gillian Wright Copyright 2018
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Katherine Philips (1632–1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women’s literary history. Best known as a poet, she was also a skilled translator, letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and retirement to politics and public life. Her poetry achieved a high reputation among coterie networks in London, Wales and Ireland during her... Read more

Introduction Marie-Louise Coolahan and Gillian Wright

1. Can a Woman Deserve the Name of Enemy? Gender, War and Law in Katherine Philips’s Corneille Translations Penelope Anderson

2. Katherine Philips’s French Translations: Between Mediation and Appropriation Line Cottegnies

3. Hermeticism in the Poetry of Katherine Philips Sajed Chowdhury

4. Katherine Philips, Richard Marriot and the Contemporary Significance of Poems. By the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Ben Crabstick

5. Making the Case for Artaban: Robert Leigh, Katherine Philips and the Court of Claims Patrick Tuite

6. "You Who in Your Selves Do Comprehend All": Notes Towards a Study of Queer Union in Katherine Philips and John Milton Paula Loscocco

7. "I Long to Know Your Opinion of It": The Serendipity of a Malfunctioning Timing Belt or the Guiney–Tutin Collaboration in the Recovery of Katherine Philips Andrea Sununu

8. The Couplet and the Poem: Late Seventeenth-Century Women Reading Katherine Philips Victoria E. Burke

9. "Behold this Creature’s Form and State": Katherine Philips and the Early Ascendancy Lee Morrissey

10. Katherine Philips’s Elegies and Historical Figuration W. Scott Howard

11. Memorial Culture and the Kinship of Friendship in Katherine Philips’s "Wiston Vault" Katia Fowler

12. A Computational Approach to the Poetry of Katherine Philips Kathleen Taylor and Gillian Wright

Biography

Marie-Louise Coolahan is Professor of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (2010), and is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700.

Gillian Wright is Reader in English and Irish Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print (2013), and she is currently editing a collection of Aphra Behn’s poetry for Cambridge University Press.