Women and Poetry 1660-1750

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: From Punk to Poetess

   1. Introduction: From Punk to Poetess

      • Sarah Prescott, David E. Shuttleton

      Pages 1-14

3. Individual Poets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Aphra Behn (1640?-89): Virginia Woolf and the ‘Little Gods of Love’

      • Susan Wiseman

      Pages 17-28

   3. Anne Killigrew (1660–85): ‘ … let ‘em Rage, and ‘gainst a Maide Conspire’

      • David E. Shuttleton

      Pages 29-39

   4. Jane Barker (1652–1732): From Galesia to Mrs Goodwife

      • Carol Shiner Wilson

      Pages 40-49

   5. Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656– 1710): Poet, Protofeminist and Patron

      • Rebecca M. Mills

      Pages 50-59

   6. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720): Sorrow into Song

      • Jane Spencer

      Pages 60-70

   7. Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674– 1737): Politics, Passion and Piety

      • Sarah Prescott

      Pages 71-78

   8. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762): Haughty Mind, Warm Blood and the ‘Demon of Poesie’

      • Jennifer Keith

      Pages 79-87

   9. Mary Leapor (1722–46): Menial Labour and Poetic Aspiration

      • Valerie Rumbold

      Pages 88-95

4. Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Imagining the Woman Poet: Creative Female Bodies

      • Jane Spencer

      Pages 99-120

   3. Rank, Community and Audience: the Social Range of Women’s Poetry

      • Valerie Rumbold

      Pages 121-139

   4. From Manuscript to Print: a Volume of Their Own?

      • Margaret J. M. Ezell

      Pages 140-160

   5. Women in the Literary Market Place: Pimping in Grub Street

      • Germaine Greer

      Pages 161-179

5. Poetic Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Classical and Biblical Models: the Female Poetic Tradition

      • Claudia Thomas Kairoff

      Pages 183-202

   3. Political Verse and Satire: Monarchy, Party and Female Political Agency

      • Kathryn R. King

      Pages 203-222

   4. The Labouring-Class Women Poets: ‘Hard Labour we most chearfully pursue’

      • Donna Landry

      Pages 223-243

The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays which discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers.

• essay
• poet
• poetry
• Tradition
• women
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Wales, UK

  Sarah Prescott

• English Department, University of Wales, UK

  David E. Shuttleton

MARGARET J.M. EZELL John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, USA GERMAINE GREER Professor of Literature at the University of Warwick CLAUDIA THOMAS KAIROFF Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA JENNIFER KEITH Teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA KATHRYN R. KING Teaches English at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, USA DONNA LANDRY Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA and Honorary Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK REBECCA M. MILLS English teacher for Durant Senior High School and an adjunct instructor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, USA SARAH PRESCOTT Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK VALERIE RUMBOLD Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK DAVID E. SHUTTLETON Teaches Literature, Theory and Film in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK JANE SPENCER Reader in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK CAROL SHINER WILSON Dean of the College for Academic Life and Assistant Professor of Humanities at Muhlenberg College S.J. WISEMAN Teaches in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London

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