Women, poetry, and politics in seventeenth-century Britain /

'Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain' offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, providing the first extended discussion of seventeenth-century women's political poetry in man...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Sarah C. E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, 2015.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. `The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's Religious Verse and Scottish Presbyterian Politics
  • 2. `Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': Sociality, Religion, and Politics in Anne Southwell's Verse
  • 3. `When that shee heard the drumms and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and Occasional Verse
  • 4. `This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's Elegies and Emblems
  • 5. `I see our nere, to be reenterd paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's `Elegies' and Order and Disorder.