Author Biography
Elaine Beilin, Professor of English at Framingham State College Margaret J. M. Ezell, John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A and M University Polly Stevens Fields, Associate Professor of English at Lake Superior University Suzanne Gossett, Professor of English at Loyola University of Chicago Margaret Hannay, Professor of English at Siena College W. Speed Hill, Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Sigrid M. King, Assistant Professor of English at Carlow College Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, and Adjunct Professor of English at New York University Mary Ellen Lamb, Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Paula Harms Payne, Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Georgia Military College Anne Shaver, Lorena Woodrow Burke Professor of English at Denison University Betty S. Travitsky, Research Associate of the CUNY Center for the Study of Women and Society Mary Villeponteaux, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi Gary Waller, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Purchase College, SUNY
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| I. Historical Contexts |
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Winning `the harts of the people': The role of the Political Subjects in the Urania |
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1 | (18) |
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The Politics of the Past: Restoration Women Writers on Women Reading History |
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19 | (22) |
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The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian Poet |
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41 | (22) |
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Margaret Hoby's Diary: Women's Reading Practices and the Gendering of the Reformation Subject |
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63 | (32) |
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Relations of Power, Relations to Power, and Power(ful) Relations: Mary Fage, Robert Fage, and Fames Roule |
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95 | (20) |
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| II. Bibliographical Problems |
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Where are the Bibliographers of Yesteryear? |
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115 | (18) |
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Text, Context, and authorship of the Booke of sir Thomas Moore |
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133 | (30) |
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| III. Gender Issues |
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Poetry's Birth: The Maternal Subtext of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus |
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163 | (14) |
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Agency and Marriage in the Fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
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177 | (14) |
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Resistant Mothers and Hidden Children |
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191 | (18) |
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Finding a Poetic Voice of Her Own: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus |
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209 | (12) |
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Charlotte Charke and the Liminality of Bi-Genderings: A Study of Her Canonical Works |
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221 | (28) |
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Crossing Over: Shakespeare, Wroth, and the Stories of our Lives |
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249 | (18) |
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| Index |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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