Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar, Zenón Luis-Martínez and Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, eds., The Female Wits: Women and Gender in Restoration Literature and Culture. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2006. 300 pp. ISBN 84-95699-69-9.
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The Female Wits: Women and Gender in Restoration Literature and Culture collects essays on several 17th-century English women writers. Together with the better known Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, essayists tackle the work of such writers as Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, or Elizabeth Singer Rowe. The general aim of the collection is to examine these writers‚ contribution to the making and development of old and new literary genres, as well as to look into the relations they established with their male counterparts.
Table of Contents.
Introduction.
Female Wits and Verse:
Jorge Casanova (U of Huelva): Ephelia: A Name or a Context?
Heidi Laudien (Manhattan College, USA): Ladies of the Shade: Female Talents in Pastoral Poetry
Amy Scott-Douglass (Denison U, USA): Self-Crowned Laureatesses: The Examples of Margaret Cavendish and Jane Lead
Rafael Vélez-Núñez (U of Cádiz): Anne Killigrew‚s Poetic Wit: Heroism and Gender Construction in the Restoration
Female Wits and Drama
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva): Reason vs. Passion: Catharine Trotter's Deployment of the Historical Tragedy
Manuel J. Gómez-Lara (U of Seville): The Politics of Modesty: the Collier Controversy and the Societies for the Reformation of Manners
Zenón Luis-Martínez (U of Huelva): Shakespeare‚s English Queens and Restoration Drama: History, Romance, and the Civilizing Process
Female Wits and Fiction
Derek W. Hughes (U of Aberdeen): Aphra Behn and the Uses of History
Bill Overton (Loughborough U): Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister as a Novel of Adultery
Sonia Villegas-López (U of Huelva): Narratives of Truth-Telling in the Rise of the Novel: William Congreve's Incognita and Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal
Female Wits and Non-Fictional Prose
María Isabel Calderón-López (U of Cádiz): A Veiled Wit: The Nun Writer of The Lady Falkland: Her Life (Ca. 1655)
Elaine Hobby (Loughborough U): ŒTo God alone be all Praise and Glory‚ or Œserving mine own sex first‚? Nicholas Culpeper, Jane Sharp, and the Restoration Midwifery Manual
Juan A. Prieto-Pablos (U of Seville): The Disease of Wit and the Discourse of Reason in Margaret Cavendish‚s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Lisa Walters (U of Edinburgh): Cavendish's Letters of Subversion