«Re»-shaping the Genres

The Editors: Zenón Luis-Martínez is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Huelva (Spain). His publications tackle Renaissance and Restoration drama.Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Vigo (Spain). His publications deal with seventeenth-century prose fiction.

• Contents: Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego/Zenón Luis-Martínez: Introduction: re-shaping the genres – María Isabel Calderón: ‘Angry I was, and Reason strook away’: Margaret Cavendish and her lyrical acts of rebellion – Rafael Vélez-Núñez: Broken emblems: Anne Killigrew’s pictorial poetry – Jorge Casanova: ‘Hell is epitomy’: Jane Barker’s visions and recreations – Pilar Zozaya: Representing women in Restoration England: a re-assessment of Aphra Behn’s The Rover – Carlos J. Gómez: Witty women masking gender and identity: the comedies of Mary Pix in context – Pilar Cuder-Domínguez: O Spain, Moors, and women: the tragedies of Aphra Behn and Mary Pix – Zenón Luis-Martínez: ‘Shakespear with enervate voice’: Mary Pix’s Queen Catharine and the interruption of history – Belén Martín-Lucas: ‘A world of my own’: Margaret Cavendish’s auto/biographical texts – Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego: Reconciling ‘the most Contrary and Distant Thoughts’: paradox and irony in the novels of Aphra Behn – Sonia Villegas-López: Devising a new heroine: Catharine Trotter’s Olinda’s Adventures and the rise of the novel reconsidered – María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia: ‘I look’d through false Glasses’: letters versus fiction in Delarivier Manley’s Letters.