History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690

BERNADETTE ANDREA Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, USAVICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English, University of Ottawa, CanadaKATHARINE GILLESPIE Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century English and Colonial American Literature, Miami University of Ohio, USAPAMELA HAMMONS Associate Professor of English, University of Miami, USATHEODORA A. JANKOWSKI Professor of English, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, USACLARE R. KINNEY Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USACRISTINA MALCOLMSON Professor of English, Bates College, USAMEGAN MATCHINSKE Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USASHANNON MILLER is Professor of English, Temple University, USAPATRICIA PHILLIPPY Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USAMARGARET REEVES Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, CanadaPAUL SALZMAN Reader in English Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia MIHOKO SUZUKI Professor of English, University of Miami, USASUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; M.Suzuki PART I: NETWORKS, DEBATES, TRADITIONS, DISCOURSES  Identifying as (Women) Writers; P.Salzman Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; M.Matchinske All about Eve: Seventeenth Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; S.Miller English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; K.Gillespie PART II: MODES AND SITES  Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; V.Burke Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters; S.Wiseman Women's Self-Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Monuments; P.Phillippy PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY GENRES 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy; C.Kinney Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-first Century; P.Hammons Early Modern Englishwomen Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; M.Wynne-Davies History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; M.Reeves PART IV: REVISIONING CONTEXTS Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Early Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish's Plays; T.Jankowski 'The Empire of Man over the inferiour Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science; C.Malcolmson Questioning Gender, War, and the 'Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish; J.Wright Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace; M.Suzuki English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-90; B.Andrea Bibliography Index

'...a thorough introduction to current directions of research on women writers during the period...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.' - C. S. Vilmar, CHOICE