Women poets of the English Civil War - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526128705 ISBN 13: 9781526128706

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets’ work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women’s poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women’s poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor in English at Victoria University of Wellington

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London

Review:

‘Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann’s readable, beautifully presented, and affordable new anthology, Women Writers of the English Civil War, makes it easier than ever before to appreciate the extent to which women poets participated in )and fundamentally contributed to) early modern experiments in poetic form.’ Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1526128705
• ISBN 13: 9781526128706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Ross Sarah C. E., Scott-Baumann Elizabeth