Description
Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The archival and theoretical research on literary authorship, textual transmission and socio-literary networks invites a re-examination of the production and reception of poetry, and alters our understanding of the way poetry participated in social, literary and political life.
The volume takes account of the expansion and changes to the canon of women's poetry and emerging research on key aspects of literary production and reception. It builds on and responds to both recent critical emphasis on literary form and on archival scholarship in women's writing, understanding the two emphases to be mutually informative.
About the Author
Susan Wiseman is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London
Reviews
'Susan Wiseman's edited collection Early Modern Women and the Poem, recently reissued in paperback, draws together twelve cohesive essays which ask in exciting ways 'how women use poetry, and how poems use women'.'
Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781526116840
Author Susan Wiseman
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 422g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 16mm
