Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 4
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 a journal 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, 1550-1700: Volume 1 Early Tudor Women Writers
Elaine V. Beilin
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 2 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Margaret P. Hannay
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 3 Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer
Micheline White
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 4 Mary Wroth
Clare R. Kinney
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 5 Anne Clifford and Lucy Hutchinson
Mihoko Suzuki
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 6 Elizabeth Cary
Karen Raber
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 7 Margaret Cavendish
Sara H. Mendelson
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700: Volume 4
Mary Wroth
Edited by
Clare R. Kinney
University of Virginia, USA
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
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Ashgate critical essays on women writers in England, 15501700
Vol. 4: Mary Wroth
1. English literature - Early modern, 15501700 - History and criticism 2. English literature - women authors
I. Kinney, Clare Regan
820.9'9287'0903
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Mary Wroth / edited by Clare R. Kinney
p. cm. (Ashgate critical essays on women writers in England, 15501700 ; v. 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6082-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism 2. English literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 3. Women and literature-England-History-16th century. I. Kinney, Clare R.
PR113.E275 2009
820.9928709031dc22
2008029997
ISBN 9780754660828 (hbk)
Contents
Heather Dubrow
Jeff Masten
Naomi J. Miller
Mary Moore
Rosalind Smith
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Sheila T. Cavanagh
Clare R. Kinney
Mary Ellen Lamb
Susan Light
Shannon Miller
Maureen Quilligan
Paul Salzman
Barbara K. Lewalski
Josephine A. Roberts
Marion Wynne-Davies
Michael G. Brennan
Helen Hackett
Margaret P. Hannay
Elizabeth Hanson
Roger Kuin
Christina Luckyj
Jacqueline T. Miller
Anne Shaver
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: Heather Dubrow (2003), And Thus Leave Off: Reevaluating Mary Wroths Folger Manuscript, V.a.104, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, , pp. 27391.
Chapter 2: Jeff Masten (1991), Shall I turne blabb?: Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroths Sonnets, in Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller (eds), Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 6787.
Chapter 3: Naomi J. Miller (1990), Rewriting Lyric Fictions: The Role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroths Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, in Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (eds), The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 295310.
Chapter 4: Mary Moore (1998), The Labyrinth as Style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Studies in English Literature, , pp. 10925.
Chapter 5: Rosalind Smith (2000), Lady Mary Wroths Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: The Politics of Withdrawal, English Literary Renaissance, , pp. 40831. With permission of Wiley-Blackwell.
Chapter 6: Jennifer Lee Carrell (1994), A Pack of Lies in a Looking Glass: Lady Mary Wroths Urania and the Magic Mirror of Romance, Studies in English Literature, 15001900, , pp. 79107.
Chapter 7: Sheila T. Cavanagh (2001), The Great Cham: East Meets West in Lady Mary Wroths Urania, Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review, , pp. 87103.
Chapter 8: Clare R. Kinney (2003), Beleeve this butt a fiction: Female Authorship, Narrative Undoing, and the Limits of Romance in
