Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 6
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700
Series Editor: Mary Ellen Lamb
The opportunities offered by the explosion of knowledge about early modern women writers in the past two decades also pose a sometimes formidable challenge. For some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women writersMary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Clifford, and Elizabeth Carythe critical literature has already become voluminous. For others, such as Anne Lock and Lucy Hutchinson, recent editions of exceptional work provide good reason to foreground them as likely figures soon to assume prominence in the field.
Drawing together essays and articles from a disparate group of scholarly journals and collective volumes, some now difficult to obtain, this series of seven volumes offers a selection from the best work in this field. Presented in a compact, easy-to-access format, this series will be especially useful for scholars new to the area as well as for experienced scholars who may have overlooked an important essay published in ajournai with limited circulation.
Each of the seven volumes listed below has been edited by a recognized authority in the area. Volume editors provide a substantial introduction surveying the current state of the field; a brief biographical account of the life of each writer covered in the volume; and a select bibliography for additional reading. In order to provide the most coverage without losing depth, some volumes cover multiple early modern authors. Every volume is published in hardcover and printed on acid-free paper suitable for library collections.
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 1 Early Tudor Women Writers
Elaine V. Beilin
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 2 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Margaret P. Hannay
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 3 Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer
Micheline White
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 4 Mary Wroth
Clare R. Kinney
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 5 Anne Clifford and Lucy Hutchinson
Mihoko Suzuki
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 6 Elizabeth Cary
Karen Raber
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 7 Margaret Cavendish
Sara H.Mendelson
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 6
Elizabeth Cary
Edited by
Karen Raber
University of Mississippi, USA
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
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Ashgate critical essays on women writers in England,
1550-1700
Vol. 6: Elizabeth Cary
1. English literature - Early modern, 1550-1700 - History and criticism 2. English literature - women authors
I. Raber, Karen, 1961-
820.9'9287'0903
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Elizabeth Cary / edited by Karen Raber
p. cm. (Ashgate critical essays on women writers in England, 1550-1700 ; v.6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6100-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticism. 2. English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 3. Women and literatureEnglandHistory16th century. I. Raber, Karen
PR113.E275 2009
820.9'928709031dc22
2008029997
ISBN 9780754661009 (hbk)
Contents
Chronology
Elaine Beilin
Donald W. Foster
Meredith Skura
Heather Wolfe
GENRE
Nancy A. Gutierrez
Rosemary Kegl
Marta Straznicky
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
Dympna Callaghan
Frances E. Dolan
Margaret W. Ferguson
Heather E. Ostman
Kimberly Woosley Poitevin
Laurie J. Shannon
Gwynne Kennedy
Karen Raber
Meredith Skura
Janet Wright Starner and Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Reina Green
Elizabeth Gruber
Jennifer L. Heller
Susan B. Iwanisziw
Maureen Quilligan
The chapters in this volume are taken from the sources listed below, for which the editor and publishers wish to thank their authors, original publishers or other copyright holders for permission to use their materials as follows:
Chapter 1: Elaine Beilin (1980), Elizabeth Cary and The Tragedie of Mariam, Papers on Language and Literature, , pp. 4564.
Chapter 2: Donald W. Foster (1993), Resurrecting the Author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, in Jean R. Brink (ed.), Privileging Gender in Early Modern England, Kirkville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., pp. 14174.
Chapter 3: Meredith Skura (1997), The Reproduction of Mothering in Mariam, Queen of Jewry: A Defense of Biographical Criticism, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, , pp. 2756.
Chapter 4: Heather Wolfe (2004), A Family Affair: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, in W. Speed Hill (ed.), New Ways of Looking at Old Texts III, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, pp. 97108.
Chapter 5: Nancy A. Gutierrez (1991), Valuing Mariam: Genre Study and Feminist Analysis, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, , pp. 23351.
Chapter 6: Rosemary Kegl (1999), Theaters, Households, and a Kind of History in Elizabeth Carys The Tragedy of Mariam, in Vivana Comensoli and Anne Russell (eds), Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 13553.
Chapter 7: Marta Straznicky (1994), Profane Stoical Paradoxes: The Tragedie of Mariam and Sidneian Closet Drama, English Literary Renaissance, , pp. 10434.
Chapter 8: Dympna Callaghan (1994), Re-Reading Elizabeth Carys
