1st Edition
Poetic Resistance English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric
By Pamela Hammons
Copyright 2002
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: Pamela Hammons' study contributes to the booming field of early modern women writers by contextualizing and analyzing a unique configuration of underexamined women's texts. By examining how 17th-century English women's composition of lyrics intersects significantly with the social experiences of the writers, the book challenges assumptions that have limited... Read more
1: Poetic Resistance: Laying Hands on the Harp; 2: Despised Creatures: The Illusion of Maternal Self-Effacement in Seventeenth-Century Child Loss Poetry; 3: Anna Trapnel as Holy Poet and Lyrical Preacher; 4: Penelope, Prophet, or Poet? Strategic Self-Figurations in Katherine Austen’s “Book M”; 5: Conclusion: The Harp in Hand
Biography
Pamela Hammons
