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The female baroque in ear­ly mod­ern Eng­lish lit­er­ary cul­ture: from Mary Sid­ney to Aphra Behn
The Female Baroque is a con­tri­bu­tion to the revival since the 1980s of ear­ly mod­ern women’s writ­ings and cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion in Eng­lish. Its orig­i­nal­i­ty is twofold: it links women’s writ­ing in Eng­lish with the wider con­text of Baroque cul­ture, and it intro­duces the issue of gen­der into dis­cus­sion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva’s study of Tere­sa of Avi­la, that ‚the secrets of Baroque civ­i­liza­tion are female‘. [-]The book is built on a schema of recur­ring Baroque char­ac­ter­is­tics — nar­ra­tiv­i­ty, hyper­bole, melan­cho­lia, kitsch, and plateau­ing, point­ing less to sur­face man­i­fes­ta­tions and more to under­ly­ing ide­o­log­i­cal ten­sions. The cru­cial con­cept of the Female Baroque is devel­oped in detail. Atten­tion is then giv­en par­tic­u­lar­ly to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemil­ia Lany­er, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sis­ters, Hes­ter Pul­ter, Anne Hutchin­son, Mar­garet Cavendish and Aphra Behn, the lat­ter two whose lives and writ­ings point to the devel­op­ing cul­tur­al tran­si­tion to the Enlight­en­ment.
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Tran­sient Bod­ies in Anglo­phone Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture
Locat­ed at the inter­sec­tions of sig­nif­i­cant phas­es of life, the tran­sient body is often at the same time a body in tran­si­tion. With par­tic­u­lar inter­est in Anglo­phone lit­er­a­tures from the eigh­teenth to the twen­ty-first cen­turies, the present col­lec­tion explores the fragili­ty of the body and human exis­tence from his­tor­i­cal, lit­er­ary, and cul­tur­al per­spec­tives. It dis­cuss­es nar­ra­tive, poet­ic, and aes­thet­ic strate­gies employed to imag­ine and doc­u­ment tran­si­tions from one stage of life to anoth­er.
The vol­ume focus­es on bod­i­ly rites of pas­sage between preg­nan­cy and birth, child­hood and adult­hood, and old age and death. More­over, the con­tri­bu­tions inves­ti­gate the tran­scen­dence of cor­po­re­al­i­ty with regard to med­ical and reli­gious prac­tices, dis­ease and decay, and the strug­gle with age­ing and a wish for longevi­ty, as well as the chal­lenge of social taboos.
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