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Forms of Engagement - Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,287
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Forms of Engagement - Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 (Hardcover, New): Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Forms of Engagement - Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 (Hardcover, New)

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Release date: June 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Dimensions: 221 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967652-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN: 0-19-967652-6
Barcode: 9780199676521

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