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Book SynopsisExamine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland -- .
Trade Review‘Susan Wiseman’s edited collection Early Modern Women and the Poem, recently reissued in paperback, draws together twelve cohesive essays which ask in exciting ways ‘how women use poetry, and how poems use women’.’
Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
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