Title An Collins and the historical imagination / edited by W. Scott Howard

Published Farnham [U.K.] ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Publishing Company : Ashgate Pub. Limited, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Imagining An Collins / W. Scott Howard -- An Collins: fiction and artifact / Stanley Stewart -- Meditation and rhetoric in "The discourse" / Lyn Bennett -- An Collins and the disabled self / Susannah B. Mintz -- The "finenesse" of devotional poetry: An Collins and the School of Herbert / Helen Wilcox -- Garden and antigarden in The song of songs and Divine songs and meditacions / Mary Eleanor Norcliffe -- Bearing their crosses with alacrity: An Collins and Marie de l'Incarnation / Patricia Demers -- An Collins and the life of writing / Sidney Gottlieb -- "[T]ouching the ground of truth": An Collins and sectarian spiritual autobiography / Marie Loughlin -- The "image of her mind": self, dissent, and femininity in Divine songs and meditacions / Bronwen Price -- The Collins legacy: representations by scholars and editors since 1653 / Robert C. Evans -- Afterword / Elaine Hobby -- Appendix A: "An dearest" volume: Richard Bishop's Divine songs and meditacions / W. Scott Howard -- Appendix B: "Another song. The winter of my infancy." Summary "The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance of an important religious and political poet from seventeenth-century England. An Collins and the Historical Imagination celebrates Collins's writing within her own time and ours through a comprehensive assessment of her poetics, literary, religious and political contexts, critical reception, and scholarly tradition"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Collins, An, active 17th century -- Criticism and interpretation Collins, An, active 17th century. Divine songs and meditacions. Collins, An, active 17th century -- Religion Collins, An, active 17th century -- Political and social views Collins, An, active 17th century -- Literary style Collins, An, active 17th century -- Appreciation SUBJECT Collins, An, active 17th century fast Divine songs and meditacions (Collins, An) fast Subject Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Art appreciation Literary style Political and social views Religion Women and literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Howard, W. Scott. ISBN 9781472418487 1472418484 9781472418494 1472418492 9781317182016 1317182014

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