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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
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‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)
This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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Digby, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Digby (née Altham; later Astley, Bernard) (c. 1601–1662) was an English gentlewoman who compiled a manuscript recipe book currently held in...
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Historicism
This entry explores a range of strategies that can productively foster greater historical understanding of women writers’ works, as well as awareness...
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Vokins, Joan
Joan Vokins (née Bunce) (c. 1630–1690) was the wife of a yeoman farmer in the Vale of White Horse in Berkshire, England. About 1663, she was...
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Women as Patrons of Drama
Many women served as dramatic patrons in early modern England. They helped make plays in private and public venues by commissioning and funding...
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Periodization
Periodization—the process of dividing and categorizing the past into distinct blocks of time—can be an extremely useful, even necessary, analytical...
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Veitch, Marion
Marion Veitch, also Vetch, daughter of James Fairlie and Eupham Kincaid, was baptized on December 20, 1639, in Holyrood Abbey. As a child, Veitch...
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Hamilton, Katherine, Duchess of Atholl
Katherine Hamilton, Duchess of Atholl (1662–1707) left a series of spiritual writings for her husband to read after her death. He subsequently copied...
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Whitrow, Joan
Joan Whitrow (c. 1631–1707) was a preacher and writer associated with the early Quaker movement. The main body of her work comprised a series of...
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Early Modern Women’s Diaries
This entry first considers the question of what may be defined as a diary in the early modern period, along with issues of the preservation,...
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Philo-Philippa
Philo-Philippa is the pseudonym by which the anonymous author of a praise poem to Katherine Philips, the “matchless Orinda,” is known. Clearly the...
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Ecocriticism/Ecofeminism
This entry examines historical and recent ecocritical and/or ecofeminist scholarship concerning early modern women’s writing. Beginning with Carolyn...
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Drama by Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, is the only English monarch to have authored dramatic texts, and she is also likely the first woman to...
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Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland
Acknowledged in her own time as a dramatist, historian, translator, and patroness, Elizabeth Cary (née Tanfield), Lady Falkland (1585/6–1639), is...
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An Archaeology of Cosmopolitanisms
This chapter is dedicated to an investigation of the term ‘cosmopolitan’ and the ideas associated with it. It begins with the definition of the word...
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Introduction
In his 1908 review of A Set of Six, Robert Lynd famously referred to Conrad as ‘a homeless person’, ‘without either country or language’. Lynd...
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Shelley's Visions of Death
This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for...
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‘And Is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816–20)
This chapter provides close readings of Laon and Cythna (1817), ‘Ozymandias’ (1818), ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819), ‘The Sensitive-Plant’ (1820) and...