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Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Pender

    1. University of Newcastle, Australia

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  2. Rosalind Smith

    1. University of Newcastle, Australia

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Material Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception

    • Patricia Pender, Rosalind Smith
    Pages 1-13

  3. Women and the Materials of Writing

    • Helen Smith
    Pages 14-35

  4. Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr’s Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus

    • Patricia Pender
    Pages 36-54

  5. ‘Le pouvoir de faire dire’: Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots’ Book of Hours

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 55-75

  6. Translation and Community in the Work of Elizabeth Cary

    • Deborah Uman
    Pages 76-98

  7. The ‘Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes’: The Transmission of Female-Voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century

    • Michelle O’Callaghan
    Pages 99-117

  8. Katherine Philips, ‘Philo-Philippa’ and the Poetics of Association

    • Kate Lilley
    Pages 118-139

  9. Late Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity

    • Margaret J. M. Ezell
    Pages 140-158

  10. Henrietta’s Version: Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory in the Nineteenth Century

    • Paul Salzman
    Pages 159-173

  11. ‘One of the Finest Poems of that Nature I ever Read’: Quantitative Methodologies and the Reception of Early Modern Women’s Writing

    • Marie-Louise Coolahan
    Pages 174-193

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 194-214
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About this book

This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.

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“This fascinating collection of essays, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, explores the material cultures of early modern women’s writing as a new way of examining production, transmission and reception. … The editors are to be congratulated for assembling such a tightly focused, conceptually vibrant and coherent volume. … Read as a whole, the collection makes an invaluable contribution to the history of the book and adds a genuinely gendered dimension to scholarship interested in material texts.” (James Daybell, English Historical Review, Vol. 131 (552), October, 2016)

“Essays in the volume explore the systems of textual production, transmission, and reception that influenced and enabled early modern women writers. … The essays are generally of a very high quality, many written by some of the best scholars working on early modern women writers. … Not only do the essays illuminate the writers under consideration, they also offer innovative ways of thinking about theact of writing.” (Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 56, 2016)

“This collection of essays concerns itself with notions of authorship in the context of the materiality of books and manuscripts. … The examination of shared credit in print culture is much in vogue these days, but this particular collection works well and is a pleasure to read. … The collection is both useful and readable. It sometimes surprises and does not disappoint.” (James Fitzmaurice, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Newcastle, Australia

    Patricia Pender, Rosalind Smith

About the editors

Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland Margaret J.M. Ezell, Texas A&M University, USA Kate Lilley, University of Sydney, Australia Michelle O'Callaghan, University of Reading, UK Patricia Pender, University of Newcastle, Australia Paul Salzman, La Trobe University, Australia Helen Smith, University of York, UK Rosalind Smith, University of Newcastle, Australia Deborah Uman, St. John Fisher College, USA.

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