Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Forms of Engagement

Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680

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Produktbeschreibung

Forms of Engagement sheds light on questions of poetic form in women's poetry. It traces the influences on the work of Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, and Margaret Cavendish, allowing readers to understand better both how women composed their poems and how they engaged with their contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780199676521
• ISBN-10: 0199676526
• Artikelnr.: 38395026

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann completed her doctorate at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. She has taught at Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and is now Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kings College London. She co-edited The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (Palgrave, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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