Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

by Evelyn S. Newlyn, S. Dunnigan (Editor), C. Harker (Editor)

Overview

This collection is the first critical and theoretical study of women as the subjects of writing and as writers in Medieval and Early-Modern Scottish literature. The essays draw on a diverse range of literary, historical, cultural and religious sources in Scots, Gaelic and English to discover the complex ways in which 'Woman' was represented and by which women represented themselves as creative subjects. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing brings to light previously unknown writing by women in the early modern period and offers as well new interpretations of early Scottish texts from feminist and theoretical perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403911810
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/30/2004
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

GORDON DESBRISAY Associate Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada GARRETT P.J. EPP Professor and Incoming Chair of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada DEANNA DELMAR EVANS Professor of English, Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA ELIZABETH EWAN Professor of History and Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada MORNA R. FLEMING Deputy Rector teaching at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, Scotland JANET HADLEY WILLIAMS Visiting Fellow in English and Theatre Studies, Australian National University KEVIN J.McGINLEY Teaches part-time at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, UK INGE B. MILFULL Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett, Germany DAVID GEORGE MULLAN Professor of History and Religious Studies, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia COLM Ó BAOILL Professor of Celtic, Aberdeen University, UK JAMIE REID-BAXTER Honorary Research Fellow, School of Scottish Studies, GlasgowUniversity, UK SUZANNE TRILL Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.M.Dunnigan PART I: WRITTEN WOMAN The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in the Second War of Scottish Independence; E.Ewan War and Truce: Aspects of Women in The Wallace; I.B.Milfull Chrystis Kirk and Peblis: Textual Containment of the Burghal Woman; C.M.Harker Women Fictional and Real in Sir David Lyndsay's Poetry; J.Hadley Williams Chastity in the Sks: Sex in Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; G.P.J.Epp The 'Fein3it' and the Feminine: Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry; K.J.McGinley PART II: WRITING WOMEN A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript; E.S.Newlyn An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I; M.R.Fleming Petrarch's Dutiful Daughter?: Anna Hume's Triumphs and the Translation of the Feminine; S.M.Dunnigan Neither Out Nor In: Scottish Gaelic Women Poets, 1650-1750; C.Ó.Baoill Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville's Ane Godlie Dreame; D.Delmar Evans Lilias Skene: A Quaker Poet and Her 'Cursed Self'; G.DesBrisay Scottish Women's Religious Autobiography, 1660-1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self; D.G.Mullan PART III: ARCHIVAL WOMEN Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culcross: An Oeuvre Decupled; J.Reid-Baxter A Checklist of Early Modern Women's Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland; S.Trill Index

Editorial Reviews

'This is an impressive volume...the editors should be congratulated...a fascinating collection of essays that genuinely provide a well rounded introduction to Scottish women's writing for the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.' - Professor James Daybell, Central Michigan University

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