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9781403911810

Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

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    9781403911810

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    1403911819

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-23
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive critical study of women as subjects and creators of medieval and early modern Scottish writing between the early fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.Essays examine canonical and non-canonical literary, historiographical, and religious texts written in the Scots, Gaelic, and English languages.Challenging the received literary and cultural history of medieval and early modern Scotland, this volume brings to texts and writers, both established and newly discovered, a range of new theoretical approaches

Author Biography

Sarah M. Dunnigan is in the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

C. Marie Harker is at Truman State University, Kirksville.

Evelyn S. Newlyn is at the State University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations
x
Contributors xi
Introduction xiv
Sarah M. Dunnigan
Part One: `Written Woman'
The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in Scotland's Second War of Independence
3(16)
Elizabeth Ewan
War and Truce: Women in The Wallace
19(12)
Inge B. Milfull
Chrystis Kirk on the Grene and Peblis to the Ploy: The Economy of Gender
31(16)
C. Marie Harker
Women Fictional and Historic in Sir David Lyndsay's Poetry
47(14)
Janet Hadley Williams
Chastity in the Stocks: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
61(13)
Garrett P. J. Epp
The `Fenzeit' and the Feminine: Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry
74(15)
Kevin J. McGinley
Part Two: `Writing Women'
A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript (c. 1586)
89(15)
Evelyn S. Newlyn
An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England
104(16)
Morna R. Fleming
Daughterly Desires: Representing and Reimagining the Feminine in Anna Hume's Triumphs
120(16)
Sarah M. Dunnigan
`Neither Out nor In': Scottish Gaelic Women Poets 1650-1750
136(17)
Colm O Baoill
Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville's Ane Godlie Dreame
153(9)
Deanna Delmar Evans
Lilias Skene: a Quaker Poet and her `Cursed Self'
162(16)
Gordon DesBrisay
Scottish Women's Religious Narrative, 1660-1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self
178(17)
David George Mullan
Part Three: `Archival Women'
Elizabeth Melville, lady Culross: 3500 New Lines of Verse
195(6)
Jamie Reid-Baxter
Early Modern Women's Writing in the Edinburgh Archives, c. 1550-1740: A Preliminary Checklist
201(26)
Suzanne Trill
Index 227

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