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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a
new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political
cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on
poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine
Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women
writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were
political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah
C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women,
offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell,
Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the
compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social
and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial
practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual
contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England,
this volume explores women's political articulation in the
devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse,
elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political
sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language
of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of
diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes
of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that
proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending
also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in
networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities
and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and
identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript
spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars.
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