An Collins and the Historical Imagination

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. The book 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. An Collins and the Historical Imagination engages with the complete arc of research and interpretation concerning Collins’s poetry from 1653 to the present. The volume defines the center and circumference of Collins scholarship for twenty-first century readers. The book’s thematically linked chapters and appendices provide a multifaceted investigation of An Collins’s writing, religious and political milieu, and literary legacy within her time and ours.


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An Collins and the Historical Imagination

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. The book 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. An Collins and the Historical Imagination engages with the complete arc of research and interpretation concerning Collins’s poetry from 1653 to the present. The volume defines the center and circumference of Collins scholarship for twenty-first century readers. The book’s thematically linked chapters and appendices provide a multifaceted investigation of An Collins’s writing, religious and political milieu, and literary legacy within her time and ours.


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An Collins and the Historical Imagination

An Collins and the Historical Imagination

by W. Scott Howard
An Collins and the Historical Imagination

An Collins and the Historical Imagination

by W. Scott Howard

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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. The book 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. An Collins and the Historical Imagination engages with the complete arc of research and interpretation concerning Collins’s poetry from 1653 to the present. The volume defines the center and circumference of Collins scholarship for twenty-first century readers. The book’s thematically linked chapters and appendices provide a multifaceted investigation of An Collins’s writing, religious and political milieu, and literary legacy within her time and ours.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472418494
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 06/28/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

W. Scott Howard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Denver, USA. He is the founding editor of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture.


Table of Contents

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 H. Loughlin; The ‘image of her mind’: self, dissent, and femininity in Divine Songs and Meditacions, Bronwen Price; The Collins legacy: representation by scholars and editors since 1653, Robert C. Evans; Afterword, Elaine Hobby; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.


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