English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority.

XII, 345 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag weist leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, sonst sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Only the dust jacket shows slight signs of usage, otherwise very clean and without markings. - Contents List of Illustrations Note on Primary Sources Abbreviations Introduction Politics Community Linguistic Authority PART I. ORIGINS 1. English and Continental Origins: Queens, Heroes, Prophets Gender, Prophecy, and Women's Place in the Restoration The Heroic Woman Gender and the Restoration Stage The Marriage of King and People The Performance of Gender at the Late Stuart Court The Female War 2. Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philips's Society of Friendship Royalism and the Heroic Woman The Self-Fashioning of the Restoration Woman Writer Narratives of Love and Warfare in Philips's 1650s Manuscript Courting Political Favour The Publication of Poems (1664) Marriage, Friendship, and Honour 3. Eros, Myth, and Monarchy in Aphra Behn Gender, Myth, and Translation Gender, Authority, and the Female Sexual Subject Desire and the Uncoupling of Myth in Behn's Erotic Poems The Woman Poet and the Female Monarch PART II. ELABORATIONS 4. The Female Monarch and the Woman Poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew, and Jane Barker Anne Killigrew as Linguistic and Political Subject at Court Jane Barker's Genres and the Late Stuart Court Poetical Recreations The Imaginary Underworld of Mary of Modena's Court The Woman Painter and the Female Hero Barker's Landscape of the Female Body Female Linguistic Authority and the Coronation of Orinda Commands from Underground: Barker's Manuscript Poems 5. Queen Anne among the Poets The Glorious Revolution as Bourgeois Marriage Queen Anne's Two Bodies Anne's Dutiful Daughters The Limits of Feminist Imperialism 6. Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self Anne Finch and the Catholic Stuarts The Publicly Private Finch and Miscellany Poems Female Community and Female Authority Finch's Female Poetic Genealogy Conclusion Appendices A. Order of Poems in Katherine Philips's Manuscripts and Poems (1664) B. Lucasia Poems C. Anne Killigrew's Paintings D. Chatwin's Pindarique to Killigrew E. Order of Poems by Jane Barker in Poetical Recreations (1688), Part I F. Order of Poems in Magdalen College MS 343, Barker's 'Poems on Several Occasions, in 3 Parts' G. Finch's Elegy on James II Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780198119739