The History of British Women’s Writing, 1610–1690

1. Introduction
Mihoko Suzuki

Part I. Networks, Debates, Traditions, Discourses

2. Identifying as (Women) Writers
Paul Salzman

3. Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women’s Poetry
Megan Matchinske

4. All about Eve: Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall
Shannon Miller

5. English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism
Katharine Gillespie

Part II. Modes and Sites

6. Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing
Victoria E. Burke

7. Reading Seventeenth-Century Women’s Letters
Susan Wiseman

8. ‘Herselfe livinge, to be pictured’: ‘Monumental Circles’ and Women’s Self-Portraiture
Patricia Phillippy

Part III. New Perspectives on Literary Genres

9. ‘More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true’: Mary Wroth’s Indefensible Apologies for Poesy
Clare R. Kinney

10. Valuing Early Modern Women’s Verse in the Twenty-First Century
Pamela Hammons

11. Early Modern English Women Dramatists (1610–1690): New Perspectives
Marion Wynne-Davies

12. History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century
Margaret Reeves

Part IV. Revisioning Contexts

13. Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Marriage
Theodora A. Jankowski

14. ‘The Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures’: British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science
Cristina Malcolmson

15. Questioning Gender, War, and ‘the Old Lie’: The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish
Joanne Wright

16. Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips’s Pompey and Horace
Mihoko Suzuki

17. English Women’s Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610–1690
Bernadette Andrea

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory