The “Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes”: the transmission of female-voiced burlesque poetry in the early seventeenth century

The essay uncovers evidence for the construction of the ‘woman author’ in the largely male vogue for bawdy burlesque poetry by tracing the circulation of a pair of verses through seventeenth-century manuscript and print miscellanies. It argues that just as these verses are reworked and recontextualised through the process of transmission, so to their ‘authors’ are re-embodied and ascribed different identities in different publication contexts. Female-voiced bawdy poetry raises particular problems for authorial attribution, rather than searching for the real woman behind the text, the essay examines how the ‘authors’ of female-voiced bawdy poetry were produced and reproduced through shifting formal frameworks and socioliterary networks.

The breaking of the circle; studies in the effect of the "new science" upon seventeenth century poetry.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sacred poetry of the seventeenth century; including the whole of Giles Fletcher's Christ's victory and triumph; with copious selections from Spenser, Davies, Sandys [and others] With an introductory essay and critical remarks,

"Christ's victory and triumph": v. 1, p. [85]-166.

Some contributions to the English anthology : (with special reference to the seventeenth century).

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'A Witty Book, but mostly feigned': William Richards' Wallography and perceptions of Wales in later seventeenth-century England

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