Editing Early Modern Women

This volume offers a new and comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of editing early modern women's writing.

Sarah C. E. Ross (Edited by), Paul Salzman (Edited by)

9781107573260, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 January 2019

311 pages, 7 b/w illus.
23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.6 kg

'This important volume will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in editing and gender, in the early modern period and beyond.' Gillian Wright, Renaissance Quarterly

This collection of new essays is a comprehensive exploration of the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the editing of texts by early modern women. The chapters consider the latest developments in the field and address a wide range of topics, including the 'ideologies' of editing, genre and gender, feminism, editing for student or general readers, print publishing, and new and possible future developments in editing early modern writing, including digital publishing. The works of writers such as Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Wroth, Anne Halkett, Katherine Philips and Katherine Austen are examined, and the issues discussed are related to the ways editing in general has evolved in recent years. This book offers readers an original overview of the central issues in this growing field and will interest students and scholars of early modern literature and drama, textual studies, the history of editing, gender studies and book history.

1. Introduction: editing early modern women Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman
Part I. Editorial Ideologies: 2. The backward gaze: editing Elizabeth Tyrwhit's prayerbook Susan M. Felch
3. Producing gender: Mary Sidney Herbert and her editors Danielle Clarke
4. Editing the feminist agenda: the power of the textual critic and Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam Ramona Wray
5. Contextualizing the woman writer: editing Lucy Hutchinson's religious prose Elizabeth Clarke
Part II. Editing Female Forms: Gender, Genre, and Editing: 6. Critical categories: toward an archaeology of Anne, Lady Halkett's archive Suzanne Trill
7. Editing early modern women's letters for publication Diana Barnes
8. Editing Queen Elizabeth I Leah Marcus
9. Editing early modern women's dramatic writing for performance Marion Wynne-Davies
10. Single-author manuscripts, poems (1664), and the editing of Katherine Philips Marie-Louise Coolahan
Part III. Out of the Archives, into the Classroom: 11. Out of the archives: Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania Mary Ellen Lamb
12. Anthologizing early modern women's poetry: women poets of the English Civil War Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
13. Modernizing Katherine Austen's Book M (1664) for the twenty-first-century, non-expert reader Pamela S. Hammons
Part IV. Editorial Possibilities: 14. Editing early modern women in the digital age Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith.

Subject Areas: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literature: history & criticism [DS]