This Double Voice: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (Early Modern Literature in History)

The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent. Eros And Poetry At The Court Of Mary Queen Of Scots And James Vi Examines The Erotics Of Literary Desire At The Stewart Court In Scotland During The Reigns Of Mary Queen Of Scots And James Vi. Encompassing The Period From The Early 1560s To The Late 1590s, This Is The First Study To Link Together Scottish Marian And Jacobean Court Literature, Presenting A Relatively Unknown Body Of Writing, Newly Theorized And Contextualized. It Argues That In This Period Erotic Poetry Can Only Be Considered In Relation To The Figure Of The Monarch, And That The Formation Of Elite Lyric Culture Takes Place Under The Shaping Influence Of Desire For, And Against, The Sovereign, And Her Or His 'passional' And Symbolic Powers.--jacket. Introduction: Amorous Histories -- From Marian To Jacobean Eros -- Pt. 1. The Marian Period. 1. Feminine Eros: Mary Queen Of Scots And The Emergence Of Desire. 2. Demonic And Angelic Women: The Erotics Of Renunciation And Mariology In The Bannatyne Manuscript -- Pt. 2. The Jacobean Period. 3. Fables Of Eros: James Vi And The Revelation Of Desire. 4. Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart And The Eroticisation Of The Courtly. 5. Love's Altar: Alexander Montgomerie And The Erotics Of Representation. 6. Heretical Love-words: The Poetry Of William Fowler. Conclusion: Love's End. Sarah M. Dunnigan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Female Authority And Authorization Strategies In Early Modern Europe / Jane Stevenson -- 'in A Mirrour Clere': Protestantism And Politics In Anne Lok's Miserere Mei Deus / Rosalind Smith -- 'formd Into Words By Your Divided Lips': Women, Rhetoric And The Ovidian Tradition / Danielle Clarke -- The Voices Of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne And Lady Bacon / Alan Stewart -- Old Wives' Tales Retold: The Mutations Of The Fairy Queen / Diane Purkiss -- Giving Time To Women: The Eternizing Project In Early Modern England / Amy Boesky -- The 'double Voice' Of Renaissance Equity And The Literary Voices Of Women / Lorna Hutson -- 'for Worth, Not Weakness, Makes In Use But One': Literary Dialogues In An English Renaissance Family / Marion Wynne-davis -- 'whom The Lord With Love Affecteth': Gender And The Religious Poet, 1590-1633 / Helen Wilcox -- Ejaculation Or Virgin Birth? The Gendering Of The Religious Lyric In The Interregnum / Elizabeth Clarke -- Unfettered Organs: The Polemical Voices Of Katherine Philips / James Loxley -- A Voice For Hermaphroditical Education / Frances Teague. Edited By Danielle Clarke And Elizabeth Clarke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-15 Female Authority and Authorization Strategies in Early Modern Europe....Pages 16-40 ‘In a mirrour clere’: Protestantism and Politics in Anne Lok’s Miserere mei Deus....Pages 41-60 ‘Formd into words by your divided lips’: Women, Rhetoric and the Ovidian Tradition....Pages 61-87 The Voices of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne and Lady Bacon....Pages 88-102 Old Wives’ Tales Retold: the mutations of the Fairy Queen....Pages 103-122 Giving Time to Women: the Eternizing Project in Early Modern England....Pages 123-141 The ‘Double Voice’ of Renaissance Equity and the Literary Voices of Women....Pages 142-163 ‘For Worth, Not Weakness, Makes in Use but One’: Literary Dialogues in an English Renaissance Family....Pages 164-184 ‘Whom the Lord with love affecteth’: Gender and the Religious Poet, 1590–1633....Pages 185-207 Ejaculation or Virgin Birth? The Gendering of the Religious Lyric in the Interregnum....Pages 208-229 Unfettered Organs: the Polemical Voices of Katherine Philips....Pages 230-248 A Voice for Hermaphroditical Education....Pages 249-269 Back Matter....Pages 270-280 "A Roman triumph was the procession of a victorious general through the city. The festivity combined religious thanksgiving, political legitimation, and carnival release. Early modern England, from the Armada period of the 1580s to the Cromwellian Protectorate in the 1650s, revived and appropriated the Roman model in a wide variety of forms. The result is a characteristic product of early modern culture." "English use of the triumph included ceremonies, stage performances, and poetic or pictorial representations. This book gives particular attention to the researches of humanist antiquarians, the vigorous tradition of pamphlet triumphs, and the literary or dramatic versions produced by Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton, as well as by non-canonical writers. It discloses the ways in which all these texts are implicated in contemporary political conflicts and discourses. The book also discusses adaptations such as the subversive triumph of love, the paradoxical triumph of peace, and Christian triumphs of humility and patience."--Jacket "The advent of relatively cheap printed editions of verse in the mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first-person speaker as a version of the author. This book examines the way in which writers, often seeking advancement in their careers, harnessed the powers of verse and print for self-promotional purposes. Close attention to the self-constructions of these writers reveals conflicts and contradictions in available models of the self, as well as doubts about the powers of verse to express the inner self. Texts studied include: an extraordinary manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne; printed verse by a woman, Isabella Whitney; an erotic romance by George Gascoigne, hailed as the first 'novel' in English; little-known but memorable narratives of travel to Russia and Africa, and of the experience of war; and more canonical works by Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare."--Jacket Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, this is the first study to link together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures, presenting a relatively unknown body of writing, newly theorized and contextualized. It argues that in this period erotic poetry can only be considered in relation to the figure of the monarch, and that the formation of elite lyric culture takes place under the shaping influence of desire for, and against, the sovereign, and her or his 'passional' and symbolic powers The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyse Renaissance literature. It tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts