Early Modern Women and the Poem (eBook)

Susan Wiseman is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London

Introduction: Researching early modern women and the poem – Susan Wiseman
Part I: Inheritance
1. Women’s poetry and classical authors: Lucy Hutchinson and the classicisation of scripture – Edward Paleit
2. Elizabeth Melville and the religious sonnet sequence in Scotland and England – Sarah CE Ross
3. The Sapphic sontext of Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus – Line Cottegnies
4. Women poets and men’s sentences: genre and literary tradition in Katherine Philips’s early poetry – Gillian Wright
Part II: Circulation
5. ‘We thy Sydnean Psalmes shall celebrate’: collaborative authorship, Sidney’s Sister and the English devotional lyric – Suzanne Trill
6. ‘Mary Wroth and hermaphroditic circulation’ – Paul Salzman
7. Sisterhood and female friendship in Constance Aston Fowler’s verse miscellany – Helen Hackett
8. Late seventeenth-century women poets and the anxiety of attribution – Margaret JM Ezell
Part III: Narrative
9. Rethinking authorial reluctance in the paratexts to Anne Bradstreet’s poetry – Patricia Pender
10. A ‘goodly sample’: exemplarity, female complaint and early modern women’s poetry – Ros Smith
11. ‘The nine-liv’d Sex’: women and justice in seventeenth-century popular poetry – Judith Hudson
12. ‘The contemplative woman’s recreation? Kaherine Austen ad the estate poem – Susan Wiseman
Afterword: Reading and early modern women and the poem – Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith
Index