Re-Reading Mary Wroth

Madeline Bassnett, University of Western Ontario, CanadaIlona Bell, Williams College, USASheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USARebecca L. Fall, Northwestern University, USANona Fienberg, Keene State College, USAMargaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USAClare R. Kinney, University of Virginia, USAMary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University, USABarbara Kiefer Lewalski, Harvard University, USAKaren L. Nelson, University of Maryland, USAPaul Salzman, La Trobe University, AustraliaKristiane Stapleton, University of Houston, USABeverly M. Van Note, St. Edward's University, USAGary Waller, Purchase College, SUNY, USAGeorgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library, USA

"Every chapter here does its work in the overall collection, and the experience of reading the whole volume is breathtaking. The breadth of scholarship here and the meticulousness of individual studies drive home the truly revolutionary part that the critical reading of early modern women's writing has played in the past three decades. Re-Reading Mary Wroth invites one to think expansively about the future direction and nature of the humanities broadly conceived, and locally about formal and expressive inflections in Wroth's writings, here newly explored to startling effect. The collection is a joy to read." - Patricia Phillippy, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University, London, UK "In this comprehensive and authoritative collection of essays that combines cutting-edge scholarship with innovative creative practice, Larson, Miller, and Strycharski have provided us with the definitive work on Mary Wroth for many years to come. It is essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students of early modern women's writing." - Marion Wynne-Davies, Professor of English, University of Surrey, UK

• Introduction: Re-Reading Mary Wroth: Networks of Knowing; Katherine R. Larson, Naomi J. Miller, and Andrew Strycharski PART I: RE-EXAMINING WROTH: AUTHORSHIP, LIFE, AND SOCIETY 1. Sleuthing in the Archives: The Life of Lady Mary Wroth; Margaret P. Hannay 2. Authorship and Author-Characters in Sidney and Wroth; Barbara K. Lewalski 3. "Can you suspect a change in me?": Poems by Mary Wroth and William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke; Mary Ellen Lamb 4. Performing "fitter means": Marriage and Authorship in Love's Victory; Beverly M. Van Note PART II: RE-MEASURING WROTH: FORM AND RITUAL 5. Turn and Counter-Turn: Reappraising Mary Wroth's Poetic Labyrinths; Clare R. Kinney 6. Measuring Authorship: Framing Forms, Genres, and Authors in Urania; Kristiane Stapleton 7. Voicing Lyric: The Songs of Mary Wroth; Katherine R. Larson 8. "Change Partners and Dance": Pastoral Virtuosity in Wroth's Love's Victory; Karen L. Nelson 9. Gifts of Fruit and Marriage Feasts in Mary Wroth's Urania; Madeline Bassnett PART III: RE-MEDIATING WROTH: EDITING AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES 10. The Autograph Manuscript of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; Ilona Bell 11. Me and My Shadow: Editing Wroth for the Digital Age; Paul Salzman 12. Pamphilia Unbound: Digital Re-visions of Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript, V.a.104; Rebecca L. Fall 13. Crowdsourcing the Urania: Lady Mary Wroth and Twenty-First-Century Technology; Sheila T. Cavanagh PART IV: RE-MIXING WROTH: BEYOND THE ACADEMY 14. Curating Mary Wroth; Georgianna Ziegler 15. Strange Labyrinths: Wroth, Higher Education, and the Humanities; Nona Fienberg 16. 'To beeleeve this but a fiction and dunn to please and pass the time': Re-Imagining Mary Wroth and William Herbert in Feigning Poetry; Gary Waller 17. Re-Imagining the Subject: Traveling from Scholarship to Fiction with Mary Wroth; Naomi J. Miller