The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture

From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn
0. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-143-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 592 g

Reihe: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women’s writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s. Its originality is twofold: it links women’s writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva’s study of Teresa of Avila, that ‘the secrets of Baroque civilization are female’. The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics — narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the book is developed in detail. Particular attention is given to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, and finally Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waller, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Labyrinthine Baroque
Chapter 2: The Female Baroque
Chapter 3: Catholic Baroque
Chapter 4: Protestant Baroque
Chapter 5: The Female Baroque in Court and Country
Chapter 6: Mary Wroth's Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Chapter 7: From Baroque to Enlightenment: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
Postscript
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Waller, Gary
Gary Waller is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Emeritus, Purchase College, SUNY. His books include English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century, The Sidney Family Romance, Walsingham and the English Imagination, The Annunciation: A Cultural History, The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Popular Culture, and The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture.