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?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
