Feminist formalism and early modern women's writing : readings, conversations, and pedagogies / edited and with an introduction by Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd.
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Taking the Thread of Mary Wroth's "A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love" -- 2. Margaret Cavendish's Forms -- 3. Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies -- 4. Building/s with Form -- 5. Gendering the Emblem -- Part 2 -- 6. Surface Desires -- 7. Mary Wroth's Urania Manuscript -- 8. Katherine Philips's Monument -- 9. Formalism Dispossessed -- Part 3 -- 10. Collaborative Close Readings
11. Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing through Literary and Material Form -- 12. Teaching the Modesty Trope -- 13. The Idea of a Woman -- 14. Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom -- Contributors -- Index -- About Lara Dodds -- About Michelle M. Dowd -- Series List
Summary
This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing by exploring women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women's texts.
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