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Forms of Engagement - Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 (Hardcover, New)
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Forms of Engagement - Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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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.
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