Overview
- Aims to identify the ways in which early modern women shaped the mode of complaint as authors, readers, and producers
- Diverse body of writers are studied across the volume: women writers whose texts are included in student-facing anthologies; authors whose works are well-known to scholars of early modern women’s writing; and others who have received comparatively little scholarly attention
- Essays from emerging and leading scholars in the field of early modern women’s writing
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sixteenth Century
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Front Matter
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Representing Complaint: New Digital Forms
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Front Matter
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Afterword
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About this book
This volume interrogates new texts (closet drama, song, manuscript-based religious and political lyrics), new authors (Dorothy Shirley, Scots satirical writers, Hester Pulter, Mary Rowlandson), and new versions of complaint (biblical, satirical, legal, and vernacular). Its essays pay specific attention to politics, form, and transmission from complaint’s first circulation up to recent digital representations of its texts. Bringing together an international group of experts in early modern women’s writing and in complaint literature more broadly, this collection explores women’s role in the formation of the mode and in doing so reconfigures our understanding of complaint in Renaissance culture and thought.
Reviews
“This rich and in many ways groundbreaking collection addresses a crucial gap in our knowledge of early modern women’s writing by recovering their multifaceted, often surprising, engagements … . The present volume provides an important corrective to the idea of women’s exclusion from complaint writing as well as to the singularity of focus on love. … while further work on recovery, description, and interpretation of these texts awaits, the present volume is a remarkably impressive opening gambit.” (Danila Sokolov, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 17 (2), 2023)
“Early Modern Women’s Complaint therefore opens up opportunities for assessing more deeply the networks of education and influence between Tudor boys and girls, and between public institutions and domestic pedagogical practices.” (Bonnie Lander Johnson, The Review of English Studies, October 28, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2015), the editor, with Paul Salzman, of Editing Early Modern Women (2016), and the editor, with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, of Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017).
Rosalind Smith is Professor of English at the Australian National University, Australia, and convenor of the Early Modern Women Research Network. Her publications include Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence (2005) and the edited collection (with Patricia Pender) Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Women's Complaint
Book Subtitle: Gender, Form, and Politics
Editors: Sarah C. E. Ross, Rosalind Smith
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42946-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42945-4Published: 24 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42948-5Published: 25 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42946-1Published: 23 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Women's Studies