Forms of engagement : women, poetry, and culture 1640-1680
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Forms of engagement : women, poetry, and culture 1640-1680
（Oxford English monographs）
Oxford University Press, 2013
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Bibliography: p. [210]-232
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What does it mean for a woman to write an elegy, ode, epic, or blazon in the seventeenth century? How does their reading affect women's use of particular poetic forms and what can the physical appearance of a poem, in print and manuscript, reveal about how that poem in turn was read?
Forms of Engagement shows how the aesthetic qualities of early modern women's poetry emerge from the culture in which they write. It reveals previously unrecognized patterns of influence between women poets Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish and their peers and predecessors: how Lucy Hutchinson responded to Ben Jonson and John Milton, how Margaret Cavendish responded to Thomas Hobbes and the scientists of the early Royal Society, and how Katherine Philips
re-worked Donne's lyrics and may herself have influenced Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell.
This book places analysis of form at the centre of an historical study of women writers, arguing that reading for form is reading for influence. Hutchinson, Philips, and Cavendish were immersed in mid-seventeenth century cultural developments, from the birth of experimental philosophy, to the local and state politics of civil war and the rapid expansion of women's print publication. For women poets, reworking poetic forms such as elegy, ode, epic, and couplet was a fundamental engagement with
the culture in which they wrote. By focusing on these interactions, rather than statements of exclusion and rejection, a formalist reading of these women can actually provide a more nuanced historical view of their participation in literary culture.
目次
- Introduction: Reading, gender and form
- 1. Margaret Cavendish, Nature, and Originality
- 2. Margaret Cavendish as Editor and Reviser
- 3. Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley: Solitude, Dialogue, and the Ode
- 4. Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson Reading John Donne
- 5. Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies, the Country-House Poem and Female Complaint
- 6. Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible, and Order and Disorder
- Afterword: Untracked paths
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