Poetic resistance : English women writers and the early modern lyric
This volume provides an examination of several early modern women poets who revised both social and literary conventions through their work. These poets occupied diverse social stations and did not necessarily share one another's values and beliefs, but they all used poetry as a form of resistance.
IX, 188 p. 23 cm
9780754607809, 0754607801
1014522791
Poetic resistance - laying hands on the harp; despised creatures - the illusion of maternal self-effacement in 17th-century child loss poetry; Anna Trapnel as holy poet and lyrical preacher; Penelope, prophet, or poet?; strategic self-figurations in Katherine Austen's "Book M"; conclusion - the harp in hand.