World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110883115X ISBN 13: 9781108831154

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.

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About the Authors

Pamela S. Hammons is Professor of English and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. She has authored Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (2010), Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric (2002), and essays on manuscript culture, poetry, and women's writing. She edited Katherine Austen's Book M: A London Widow's Life Writings (2013) for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Awards have included a Mellon Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend and Fellowship. She is currently editing Mary Carey's A Mother's Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies for The Other Voice.

Brandie R. Siegfried is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Her interests include relations between Elizabethan literary history and sixteenth-century Ireland. Recent articles concern Henry Sidney in Ireland, Irish counter-Tudor campaigns and the typology of Israel, Irish ballads, and bardic conceptualizations of sovereignty. Her books focus on Margaret Cavendish―including the co-edited God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish (2014) and a modern spelling edition of Poems and Fancies (2018) for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, which won the Josephine Roberts Scholarly Edition Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110883115X
• ISBN 13: 9781108831154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Hammons Pamela S., Siegfried Brandie R.