A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

A COMPANION TO EARLY MODERN WOMEN’S WRITING......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
PART ONE Contexts......Page 23
1 Women and Education......Page 25
2 Religion and the Construction of the Feminine......Page 44
3 Women,Property and Law......Page 62
4 Women and Work......Page 80
5 Women and Writing......Page 99
PART TWO Readings......Page 117
6 Isabella Whitney,A Sweet Nosegay......Page 119
7 Mary Sidney,Countess of Pembroke,Psalmes......Page 132
8 Aemilia Lanyer,Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum......Page 147
9 Elizabeth Cary,The Tragedy of Mariam and History......Page 158
10 Mary Wroth,The Countess of Montgomery ’s Urania......Page 172
11 Margaret Cavendish,A True Relation of My Birth,Breeding and Life......Page 187
12 Anna Trapnel,Anna Trapnel ’s Report and Plea......Page 199
13 Katherine Philips,Poems......Page 211
14 Aphra Behn,The Rover,Part One......Page 225
15 Mary Astell,Critic of the Marriage Contract/Social Contract Analogue......Page 238
PART THREE Genres......Page 251
16 Autobiography......Page 253
17 Defences of Women......Page 270
18 Prophecy......Page 286
19 Women ’s Poetry 1550 –1700:‘Not Un .t to be Read ’......Page 304
20 Prose Fiction......Page 325
21 Drama......Page 339
PART FOUR Issues and Debates......Page 359
22 The Work of Women in the Age of Electronic Reproduction:The Canon,Early Modern Women Writers and the Postmodern Reader......Page 361
23 Feminist Historiography......Page 383
Index......Page 399