1st Edition
Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern England Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go?
By Lynnette McGrath
Copyright 2002
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: Combining the approaches of historic scholarship and post-structural, feminist psychoanalytic theory to late 16th- and early 17th-century poetry by women, this book aims to make a unique contribution to the field of the study of early modern women's writings. One of the first to concentrate exclusively on early modern women's poetry, the full-length... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, 1. The Subject in the Margin. Women and Poetry in Early Modern England, 2. The Flesh. The Other Body: Women’s Physical Images, 3. The Word. Secret Pleasures: Women’s Literacy and Learning, 4. Isabella Whitney. The Printed Subject: Print, Power and Abjection in The Copy of a Letter and A Sweet Nosgay, 5. Elizabeth Cary. The Nomadic Subject: Space and Mobility in the Life and Mariam, 6. Aemilia Lanyer. The Feminist Subject: Idealization and Subversive Metaphor in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 7. Epilogue, Works Cited, Index
Biography
McGrath, Lynnette
