Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

by Woods, Susanne; Hannay, Margaret P.

• ISBN13: 9780873523479
• ISBN10: 0873523474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

The increased attention to women's literature of the early modern period has reinvigorated literary study, not by supplanting the traditional canon but by renewing our interest in it.

Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers summarizes the latest scholarship on British women writers who lived from roughly 1500 to 1700 and suggests strategies for presenting their works in the classroom. Thirty-six essays discuss frequently anthologized pieces by such women as Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney, and Mary Wroth as well as the writings of women who have come to the notice of scholars only recently.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(23)
Margaret P. Hannay
Susanne Woods
Part I: Women's Lives and Women's Texts
Constructions of Women Readers	23	(12)
Mary Ellen Lamb
Circulating Texts in Early Modern England	35	(17)
Wendy Wall
Women's Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England	52	(9)
Elizabeth Clarke
Women Writing Literature in Italy and France	61	(11)
Pamela J. Benson
Writing History	72	(12)
Elaine V. Beilin
Writing Religion	84	(20)
John N. King
Frances E. Dolan
Elaine Hobby
Writing Society	104	(15)
Naomi J. Miller
Part II: Selected Authors
Queen Elizabeth I	119	(8)
Janel Mueller
Anne Vaughan Lock	127	(8)
Susan M. Felch
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke	135	(10)
Margaret P. Hannay
Lady Mary Wroth	145	(10)
Josephine A. Roberts
Margaret P. Hannay
Aemilia Lanyer	155	(9)
Susanne Woods
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland	164	(10)
Barry Weller
Rachel Speght	174	(11)
Barbara K. Lewalski
Katherine Philips	185	(10)
Elizabeth H. Hageman
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle	195	(9)
Anne Shaver
Aphra Behn	204	(17)
Germaine Greer
Part II: Models for Teaching
Introduction	217	(4)
Theoretical Issues
Teaching the Writings of Early Modern Women from a Theoretical Perspective	221	(6)
Gary F. Waller
Theory in the Teaching of Early Modern Women Writers	227	(8)
Paula Loscocco
Early Modern Women Writing Race	235	(8)
Kim F. Hall
Gwynne Kennedy
Strategies
Juxtaposing Genders: Jane Lead and John Milton	243	(5)
Betty S. Travitsky
Anne Lake Prescott
Portraits: Self and Other	248	(5)
Erna Kelly
Archival Studies: Retrieving the ``Nonexistent'' Women Writers of the English Renaissance	253	(8)
Ann Hurley
Types of Courses
Illuminating the Margins of the Early Modern Period: Using Women's Voices in the History Class	261	(5)
Carole Levin
Teaching (Early Modern Women's) Writing	266	(5)
Bernadette Andrea
Canons and Course Packs: Teaching Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing in Belfast	271	(8)
Ramona Wray
Teaching Specific Texts
Teaching Class: Whitney's ``Wyll and Testament'' and Nashe's ``Litany in Time of Plague''	279	(4)
Patricia Brace
Isabella Whitney and the Ideologies of Writing and Publication	283	(6)
Lynette F. McGrath
Seven Faces of Cleopatra	289	(6)
Elizabeth Patton
Aemilia Lanyer and Virtue	295	(4)
Mary V. Silcox
Diabolic Dreamscape in Lanyer and Milton	299	(4)
Josephine A. Roberts
Teaching Aphra Behn's ``The Disappointment''	303	(5)
Stephen C. Behrendt
Teaching Aphra Behn's The Rover	308	(7)
Robin Ikegami
Part IV: Resources for Further Study
Lost in the Archives? Searching for Records of Early Modern Women	315	(33)
Georgianna Ziegler
Traditional Studies of Early Women Writers	348	(9)
Suzanne W. Hull
``My Bookes and Pen I Wyll Apply'': Recent Studies of Early Modern British Women Writers	357	(16)
Sara Jayne Steen
Notes on Contributors	373	(8)
Works Cited	381	(36)
Index	417