London Renaissance Seminar Book Talks: Women and Poetry
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
In Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (OUP, 2015) Sarah C. E. Ross analyses women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland.
Gillian Wright’s Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600-1730 : Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print (CUP, 2013) examines the composition and compilation of poetic collections in early modern England, Ireland, Wales and New England.
Poets discussed include: Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Anne Finch and Mary Monck.
Dr Mary Morrissey (Reading) and Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (Galway) will lead discussion of the books and their place in the field. Topics may include women's poetic authorship; the return of 'form'; the significance of materiality, manuscript and print; 'public' and 'private'; periodisation; whether archipelagism is changing critical paradigms.
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman