Feminist formalism and early modern women's writing : readings, conversations, and pedagogies
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Feminist formalism and early modern women's writing : readings, conversations, and pedagogies
(Women and gender in the early modern world)
University of Nebraska Press, c2022 , [Lightning Source]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers, that examine women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres, and that offer practical suggestions for the teaching of women's texts in several different contexts. Contributors explore the possibility of feminist formalism, a methodology that both attends to the structural, rhetorical, and other formal techniques of a given text and takes gender as a central category of analysis. This collection contends that feminist formalism is a useful tool for scholars of the early modern period and for literary studies more broadly because it marries the traditional questions of formalism-including questions of style, genre, and literary history-with the political and cultural concerns of feminist inquiry.
Contributors reposition works by important women writers-such as Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter, Mary Wroth, and Katherine Philips-as central to the development of English literary tradition. By examining a variety of texts written by women, including recipes, emblems, exchanges, and poetry, Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing contributes to existing scholarship on early modern women's writing while extending it in new and important directions.
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Introduction: Defining Feminist Formalism
Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd
Part 1. Readings
1. Taking the Thread of Mary Wroth's "A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love"
Jennifer Higginbotham
2. Margaret Cavendish's Forms: Literary Formalism and the Figures of Cavendish's Atom Poems
Liza Blake
3. Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies
Edith Snook
4. Building/s with Form: Dorothy Calthorpe's Castle and Chapel
Julie A. Eckerle
5. Gendering the Emblem: Hester Pulter's Formal Experimentation
Victoria E. Burke
Part 2. Conversations
6. Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive
Dianne Mitchell
7. Mary Wroth's Urania Manuscript: Poems in Their Proper Places
Paul Salzman
8. Katherine Philips's Monument: The Genre of "Wiston Vault"
Stephen Guy-Bray
9. Formalism Dispossessed: Pulter, Donne, and the Obliviated Urn
Marshelle Woodward
Part 3. Pedagogies
10. Collaborative Close Readings: Anne Vaughan Lock's Sonnets in the Undergraduate Survey Course
Lauren Shook
11. Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing through Literary and Material Form
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
12. Teaching the Modesty Trope: Early Modern Women's Texts in a Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Margaret J. M. Ezell
13. The Idea of a Woman: Teaching Gender and Poetic Form in Early Modern Elegy
Sarah C. E. Ross
14. Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom
Andrew Black
Contributors
Index
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