Early Modern Women Poets An Anthology

Name: Early Modern Women Poets An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780199242573

ISBN-10: 0199242577

ISBN-13: 9780199242573

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson

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Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books. While it contains lavish selections from important poets such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, and Aemilia Lanyer, almost half of the material included is previously unpublished and uncollected. It aims to introduce the reader to a conspectus of the verse written by women from c.1520 to 1700, at all social levels from the verse of court elite to working-class women's aphorisms, libels, and charms. All genres of verse used by early modern women are represented; as are all languages in which women's verse survives: Classical Greek and…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 639
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Jane Stevenson was born in 1959 in London & brought up in London, Beijing, & Bonn. She teaches comparative literature & translation studies at the University of Warwick & lives with her husband in Warwickshire, England. Her novel, "London Bridges," will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2001.