The History of British Women’s Writing, 1610–1690

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Identifying as (Women) Writers....Pages 33-47
Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women’s Poetry....Pages 48-63
All about Eve: Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall....Pages 64-79
English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism....Pages 80-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing....Pages 99-113
Reading Seventeenth-Century Women’s Letters....Pages 114-128
‘Herselfe livinge, to be pictured’: ‘Monumental Circles’ and Women’s Self-Portraiture....Pages 129-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
‘More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true’: Mary Wroth’s Indefensible Apologies for Poesy....Pages 155-170
Valuing Early Modern Women’s Verse in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 171-186
Early Modern English Women Dramatists (1610–1690): New Perspectives....Pages 187-203
History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century....Pages 204-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Marriage....Pages 221-237
‘The Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures’: British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science....Pages 238-253
Questioning Gender, War, and ‘the Old Lie’: The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish....Pages 254-269
Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips’s Pompey and Horace....Pages 270-286
English Women’s Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610–1690....Pages 287-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-339