Further Call for Submissions to Pedagogical Project on Early Modern =
Women's
Writings
We still have openings for contributions in the following categories. =
Please
contact us before submitting any materials since we would like to =
prevent
duplication. We are now limiting the range of materials to the 16th and =
17th centuries.=20
Household / medical documents: eg, the Countess of Lincoln's
Nursery, Mary Trye, Jane Sharp and Elizabeth Cellier on midwifery.
Mothers' Advice Books: eg. Susanna Bell; Elizabeth Richardson
Life-writing: eg, Lady Anne Halkett, Lady Anne Clifford, Mary
Boyle Rich Countess of Warwick, Hannah Allen, Elizabeth Freke, Alice
Thornton, Lady Grace Mildmay, Susanna Parr
Essayists: eg, Bathsua Makin, Mary Astell, Anne Finch, Priscilla Cotton
Poets: eg, Katherine Philips, An Collins
Religious writers: for example, Anna Trapnel, Quaker women
Playwrights: Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn, Catherine Trotter, "Ariadne,"
"Ephelia," Susanna Centlivre
Plays in translation: for example, Jane Lumley's Iphigenia in Aulis; =
Mary
Pix's The Beau Defeated (from French play Le Chevalier a la mode); Mary
Sidney Herbert; Katherine Philips's translations of Corneille
Letters=20
Fiction: eg Mary de la Riviere Manley, Anna Weamys
This pedagogical project of materials from 16th- and 17th-century =
women's literary, religious, legal, and social writings is intended for =
classroom use in literature, history, and
women's studies courses. The collection will provide students with an
opportunity to view the history of the female-authored text by giving =
them
access to facsimiles of manuscript pages and of title pages, =
frontispieces,
etc. taken from original editions.
The project will be organized in terms of genres, including poetry,
fiction, plays, pamphlets, manuscripts, religious documents, life =
writing,
legal texts, domestic manuals, etc. A range of material representing =
the
structure of the early modern book will also be represented: title =
pages,
frontispieces, prefaces/prologues, pages of text, engravings, epilogues,
postscripts, and other endmatter.
Please send us photocopies of text pages. After we accept the =
submissions, we will
request that you provide photographs of the images along with written
permission to reproduce them. Include with your initial submission a =
brief
commentary of 300-500 words, in which you annotate the image or text by
identifying its source (provide all bibliographic information), =
explaining
its significance, and listing relevant secondary criticism.
Please send your materials by September 1999 to Helen Ostovich,
Dept. of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
email: ostovich@mcmaster.ca
or to Elizabeth Sauer, Dept. of English, Brock University, St. =
Catharines,
Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1 email: emsauer@spartan.ac.brocku.ca.
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