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Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621

The Politics of Absence

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  • © 2005

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  1. Rosalind Smith
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women’s Sonnet Sequences and Collections

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 1-12

  3. ‘In a mirrour clere’: Anne Lock’s Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 13-38

  4. Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 39-60

  5. The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 61-87

  6. The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira’s Complaint

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 88-118

  7. Conclusion

    • Rosalind Smith
    Pages 119-122

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 123-169
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About this book

This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within genre.

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'Smith shows that precedents of published women's writing can be as inhibiting as enabling, and therefore disrupts any smoothly progressive model of women's literary history.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Rosalind Smith has produced a well-organized and effective work, with much to recommend it...The strength of the work lies not only in its clearly defined remit but also in Smith's ability to range effortlessly from close textual analysis to a consideration of the wider context for these works, and to dovetail literary criticism with historical insight.' - Lucinda Becker, Modern Language Review

About the author

ROSALIND SMITH is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published articles on gender and poetry in the early modern period and is preparing a monograph on Marian textual practice.

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