My Rare Wit Killing Sin: Poems of a Restoration Courtier - Couverture souple

Killigrew, Anne; Ezell, Margaret J. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0772721521 ISBN 13 : 9780772721525

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2013

Synopsis

This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court; her position in relation to court culture and her family's involvement with the London commercial stage gave her a unique perspective into the issues confronting a young single woman in a period during which libertinism was the dominant ethos of the courtiers. This edition lightly modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the posthumous volume of her collected verse, provides notes identifying the classical and biblical allusions which shape her works, and provides a historical context for her literary and artistic career in the introduction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margaret J. M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (1987), Writing Women's Literary History (1993), and Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters investigating the social circulation of handwritten texts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0772721521
• ISBN 13: 9780772721525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
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