The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set

The first ever complete critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720).

Anne Finch (Author), Jennifer Keith (Edited by), Claudia Thomas Kairoff (Edited by)

9780521196222, Cambridge University Press

, published 6 May 2021

1400 pages
22.3 x 14.3 x 10 cm, 2.38 kg

'The two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch: Countess of Winchelsea allows us to imagine an alternative Age of Finch. The editors, Claudia Kairoff and Jennifer Keith, have completed with astonishing thoroughness, sensitivity, and seriousness one of the landmark pieces of eighteenth-century scholarship of this century … Against centuries of incomplete attention to Finch, Keith and Kairoff have “redeemed” her in a triumphant act of feminist intervention and recovery.' Andrew Black, Digital Defoe

This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. Writer and critic of the Glorious Revolution, Finch imparts rare insights into this watershed of political and cultural values. Her work represents a complex convergence of artistic innovation, political allegiance, and personal passion.

Volume 1: List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgments
Chronology
Abbreviations
Note
General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden
Textual introduction Jennifer Keith
Account of the texts Jennifer Keith
Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith
From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript)
Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript)
Some Pieces out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso
The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: A Tragecomedy
Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: A Tragedy
Additional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral
Explanatory and textual notes
List of source copies
Select bibliography
Index of titles
Index of first lines. Volume 2: List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgments
Chronology
Abbreviations
Note
General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff and Jennifer Keith
Textual introduction Jennifer Keith
Account of the texts Jennifer Keith and R. Carter Hailey
From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions
The Wellesley Manuscript
Additional Poems
Explanatory and textual notes
Correspondence
A reception and transmission history of Finch's work: illustrative cases from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries Rachel Bowman
List of source copies
Select bibliography
Index of titles
Index of first lines.

Subject Areas: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Plays, playscripts [DD], Poetry by individual poets [DCF], Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]