Clare R. Kinney, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA

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• Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 'And thus leave off': reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger manuscript, V.a.104, Heather Dubrow; 'Shall I turne blabb?': circulation, gender, and subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroth's sonnets, Jeff Masten; Rewriting lyric fictions: the role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Naomi J. Miller; The labyrinth as style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Mary Moore; Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: the politics of withdrawal, Rosalind Smith. Part II Urania I and II: A pack of lies in a looking glass: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the magic mirror of romance, Jennifer Lee Carrell; 'The Great Cham': East meets West in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; 'Beleeve this butt a fiction': female authorship, narrative undoing and the limits of romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Clare R. Kinney; The biopolitics of romance in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Ellen Lamb; Reading romances: the handwritten ending of Mary Wroth's Urania in the UCLA Library copy, Susan Light; Textual crimes and punishment in Mary Wroth's Urania, Shannon Miller; The constant subject: instability and female authority in Wroth's Urania poems, Maureen Quilligan; The strang[e] constructions of Mary Wroth's Urania: Arcadian romance and the public realm, Paul Salzman. Part III Love's Victory: Love's Victory, Barbara K. Lewalski; Deciphering women's pastoral: coded language in Wroth's Love's Victory, Josephine A. Roberts; 'Here is a sport will well befit this time and place': allusion and delusion in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory, Marion Wynne-Davies. Part IV Contexts: 'A Sydney, though un-named': Ben Jonson's influence in the manuscript and print circulation of Lady Mary Wroth's writings, Michael G. Brennan; 'Yet tell me some such fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'femininity' of romance, Helen Hackett; 'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a mentor to Mary Wroth, Margaret P. Hannay; Boredom and whoredom: reading Renaissance women's sonnet sequences, Elizabeth Hanson; More I still undoe: Louise Labé, Mary Wroth and the Petrarchan discourse, Roger Kuin; The politics of genre in early women's writing: the case of Lady Mary Wroth, Cristina Luckyj; Lady Mary Wroth in the house of Busirane, Jacqueline T. Miller; Agency and marriage in the fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Anne Shaver; Index.

Clare R. Kinney, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA

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• Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 'And thus leave off': reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger manuscript, V.a.104, Heather Dubrow; 'Shall I turne blabb?': circulation, gender, and subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroth's sonnets, Jeff Masten; Rewriting lyric fictions: the role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Naomi J. Miller; The labyrinth as style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Mary Moore; Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: the politics of withdrawal, Rosalind Smith. Part II Urania I and II: A pack of lies in a looking glass: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the magic mirror of romance, Jennifer Lee Carrell; 'The Great Cham': East meets West in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; 'Beleeve this butt a fiction': female authorship, narrative undoing and the limits of romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Clare R. Kinney; The biopolitics of romance in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Ellen Lamb; Reading romances: the handwritten ending of Mary Wroth's Urania in the UCLA Library copy, Susan Light; Textual crimes and punishment in Mary Wroth's Urania, Shannon Miller; The constant subject: instability and female authority in Wroth's Urania poems, Maureen Quilligan; The strang[e] constructions of Mary Wroth's Urania: Arcadian romance and the public realm, Paul Salzman. Part III Love's Victory: Love's Victory, Barbara K. Lewalski; Deciphering women's pastoral: coded language in Wroth's Love's Victory, Josephine A. Roberts; 'Here is a sport will well befit this time and place': allusion and delusion in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory, Marion Wynne-Davies. Part IV Contexts: 'A Sydney, though un-named': Ben Jonson's influence in the manuscript and print circulation of Lady Mary Wroth's writings, Michael G. Brennan; 'Yet tell me some such fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'femininity' of romance, Helen Hackett; 'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a mentor to Mary Wroth, Margaret P. Hannay; Boredom and whoredom: reading Renaissance women's sonnet sequences, Elizabeth Hanson; More I still undoe: Louise Labé, Mary Wroth and the Petrarchan discourse, Roger Kuin; The politics of genre in early women's writing: the case of Lady Mary Wroth, Cristina Luckyj; Lady Mary Wroth in the house of Busirane, Jacqueline T. Miller; Agency and marriage in the fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Anne Shaver; Index.

Clare R. Kinney, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA

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• Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 'And thus leave off': reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger manuscript, V.a.104, Heather Dubrow; 'Shall I turne blabb?': circulation, gender, and subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroth's sonnets, Jeff Masten; Rewriting lyric fictions: the role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Naomi J. Miller; The labyrinth as style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Mary Moore; Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: the politics of withdrawal, Rosalind Smith. Part II Urania I and II: A pack of lies in a looking glass: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the magic mirror of romance, Jennifer Lee Carrell; 'The Great Cham': East meets West in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; 'Beleeve this butt a fiction': female authorship, narrative undoing and the limits of romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Clare R. Kinney; The biopolitics of romance in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Mary Ellen Lamb; Reading romances: the handwritten ending of Mary Wroth's Urania in the UCLA Library copy, Susan Light; Textual crimes and punishment in Mary Wroth's Urania, Shannon Miller; The constant subject: instability and female authority in Wroth's Urania poems, Maureen Quilligan; The strang[e] constructions of Mary Wroth's Urania: Arcadian romance and the public realm, Paul Salzman. Part III Love's Victory: Love's Victory, Barbara K. Lewalski; Deciphering women's pastoral: coded language in Wroth's Love's Victory, Josephine A. Roberts; 'Here is a sport will well befit this time and place': allusion and delusion in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory, Marion Wynne-Davies. Part IV Contexts: 'A Sydney, though un-named': Ben Jonson's influence in the manuscript and print circulation of Lady Mary Wroth's writings, Michael G. Brennan; 'Yet tell me some such fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'femininity' of romance, Helen Hackett; 'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a mentor to Mary Wroth, Margaret P. Hannay; Boredom and whoredom: reading Renaissance women's sonnet sequences, Elizabeth Hanson; More I still undoe: Louise Labé, Mary Wroth and the Petrarchan discourse, Roger Kuin; The politics of genre in early women's writing: the case of Lady Mary Wroth, Cristina Luckyj; Lady Mary Wroth in the house of Busirane, Jacqueline T. Miller; Agency and marriage in the fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Anne Shaver; Index.