Collins and the Historical Imagination

W. Scott Howard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Denver, USA. He is the founding editor of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture.

• List of Figures, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Imagining An Collins, 1. An Collins: Fiction and Artifact, 2. Meditation and Rhetoric in “The Discourse”, 3. An Collins and the Disabled Self, 4. The “finenesse” of Devotional Poetry: An Collins and the School of Herbert, 5. Garden and Antigarden in the Song of Songs and Divine Songs and Meditacions, 6. Bearing Their Crosses with Alacrity: An Collins and Marie de l’Incarnation, 7. An Collins and the Life of Writing, 8. “[T]ouching the ground of Truth”: An Collins and Sectarian Spiritual Autobiography, 9. The “image of her mind”: Self, Dissent, and Femininity in Divine Songs and Meditacions, 10. The Collins Legacy: Representations by Scholars and Editors Since 1653, Afterword, Appendix A: “An dearest” volume: Richard Bishop’s Divine Songs and Meditacions, Appendix B: “Another Song. The Winter of my infancy”, Bibliography, Index

'A useful work for scholars of early modern devotional literature, women writers, or disability studies, W. Scott Howard’s An Collins and the Historical Imagination is an essential publication for those studying or writing about Collins’s Divine Songs and Meditacions.' The Spenser Review