Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing

Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott

Columbia University Press, 2000 - 411 pàgines

Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas those that focus on women include women exclusively. This book is the first to survey both in an integrated fashion. Its texts comprise a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing--including some new and important discoveries. The texts are arranged so that writing by women and men is presented together, not in a "point-counterpoint" system that would "square off" female and male writers against one another, but rather in pairs, sometimes clusters, of texts in which women's writing is foregrounded even as it appears with writing by men.

The anthology arranges recently recovered texts into intriguing patterns, juxtaposing, for example, Aemelia Lanyer's country house poem with an expression of a different type of nostalgia by Surrey. It includes unconventional voices, as in the homoerotic poems by Richard Barnfield or the possibly lesbian poems by Katherine Philips. It makes newly available the voices of English Marrano women (secret Jews) and the Miltonic poetry of Jean Lead.

Continguts

• Amelia Bassano Lanyer 15691645: 29
• Elizabeth Stafford Howard duchess of Norfolk 14971558: 39
• Rachel Wriothesley Vaughan Russell 16361723: 46
• Jane Sharp fl 16411671: 54
• Rachel Speght Procter c 1597after 1621: 69
• Elizabeth Talbot Grey countess of Kent 15811651: 86
• Sarah Chevers fl 1663 and Katherine Evans d 1692: 97
• Anne Vaughan Lock Dering Prowse c 1534after 1590: 114
• Elizabeth Melville Colville of Culross fl 16031630: 135
• A Medley of Christian Religious Poetry: 150
• Jane Ward Lead 16241704: 166
• The Jewish Question in Early Modern England: 187
• POLITICAL LIFE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES: 207
• Margaret Douglas Stuart countess of Lennox 15151578: 217
• Divers WellAffected Women 1649: 227
• Margaret Tyler fl 1578: 236
• Diana Primrose fl 1630: 247
• Anne Edgcumbe Dowriche before 1560after 1613: 260
• Mary Fage fl 1637: 277
• Eleanor Audley Davies Douglas 15901652: 287
• Elizabeth Sawyer d 1621 and Henry Goodcole 15861641: 297
• Mary White Rowlandson c 1635after 1677: 306
• Mary Sidney Wroth 1587?1653?: 329
• Katherine Fowler Philips 16321664: 342
• Isabella Whitney fl 15661573: 357
• Mary Sidney Wroth 1587?1653?: 376

Sobre l'autor

Betty S. Travitsky, archivist at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, is editor of The Paradise of Women. Anne Lake Prescott is professor of English at Barnard College and the author of Imagining Rabelais in the English Renaissance.

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing
• Editors: Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott
• Editor: Columbia University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0231100418, 9780231100410
• Nre. de pàgines: 411 pàgines