Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing

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Introduction: Defining Feminist Formalism
Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd 
Part 1. Readings 
1. Taking the Thread of Mary Wroth’s “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love” 
Jennifer Higginbotham
2. Margaret Cavendish’s Forms: Literary Formalism and the Figures of Cavendish’s Atom Poems
Liza Blake
3. Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies
Edith Snook
4. Building/s with Form: Dorothy Calthorpe’s Castle and Chapel
Julie A. Eckerle
5. Gendering the Emblem: Hester Pulter’s Formal Experimentation
Victoria E. Burke
Part 2. Conversations 
6. Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive
Dianne Mitchell
7. Mary Wroth’s Urania Manuscript: Poems in Their Proper Places
Paul Salzman  
8. Katherine Philips’s Monument: The Genre of “Wiston Vault” 
Stephen Guy-Bray
9. Formalism Dispossessed: Pulter, Donne, and the Obliviated Urn
Marshelle Woodward
Part 3. Pedagogies
10. Collaborative Close Readings: Anne Vaughan Lock’s Sonnets in the Undergraduate Survey Course
Lauren Shook
11. Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing through Literary and Material Form
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
12. Teaching the Modesty Trope: Early Modern Women’s Texts in a Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Margaret J. M. Ezell
13. The Idea of a Woman: Teaching Gender and Poetic Form in Early Modern Elegy
Sarah C. E. Ross
14. Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom
Andrew Black
Contributors
Index