'Corrected by the Author': Women, Poetry, and Seventeenth-Century Print Publication

Early modern women's poetry tends to be read in one of two prevailing critical paradigms. On the one hand, much important scholarship emphasizes revision, augmentation, and the malleability of women's manuscript texts. On the other, print editions of women's texts are celebrated as la...

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Published inThe Huntington Library quarterly Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 353 - 381
Main Authors Ross, Sarah C. E, Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 01.01.2021
Subjects
17th century
Authors
Authorship
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
British & Irish literature
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)
Comparative Analysis
Early modern period
Editorials
English literature
Essays
Females
Historical text analysis
Intention
Literary criticism
Males
Paradigms
Philips, Katherine (1631-1664)
Poetry
Poets
Women
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Early modern women's poetry tends to be read in one of two prevailing critical paradigms. On the one hand, much important scholarship emphasizes revision, augmentation, and the malleability of women's manuscript texts. On the other, print editions of women's texts are celebrated as landmarks; print publication, in this view, bestows new qualities of posterity, stability, and fixity. This essay reinterrogates these paradigms of malleability in manuscript and fixity in print. Focusing on the variant print editions of poetry by Katherine Philips, Anne Bradstreet, and Margaret Cavendish, it reveals a complex contingency to women's printed poetic texts and, in doing so, reassesses women poets' relationship to seventeenth-century print culture.
ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
1544-399X
DOI:10.1353/hlq.2021.0027