Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Scottish medieval and Renaissance literature and is the author of Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). - C. MARIE HARKER is an Assistant Professor in English Literature at Truman State University. She has published on late medieval and early Modern English and Scottish literature, with a critical focus on feminist and gender-theory. - EVELYN S. NEWLYN is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport. She has published on Middle Scots poetry, early Scots manuscripts, and the Middle Cornish drama. -

'This is an impressive volume...the editors should be congratulated...a fascinating collection of essays that genuinely provide a well rounded introduction to Scottish women's writing for the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.' - Professor James Daybell, Central Michigan University

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.M.Dunnigan PART I: WRITTEN WOMAN The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in the Second War of Scottish Independence; E.Ewan War and Truce: Aspects of Women in The Wallace; I.B.Milfull Chrystis Kirk and Peblis: Textual Containment of the Burghal Woman; C.M.Harker Women Fictional and Real in Sir David Lyndsay's Poetry; J.Hadley Williams Chastity in the Stocks: Sex in Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; G.P.J.Epp The 'Fein3it' and the Feminine: Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry; K.J.McGinley PART II: WRITING WOMEN A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript; E.S.Newlyn An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I; M.R.Fleming Petrarch's Dutiful Daughter?: Anna Hume's Triumphs and the Translation of the Feminine; S.M.Dunnigan Neither Out Nor In: Scottish Gaelic Women Poets, 1650-1750; C.Ó.Baoill Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville's Ane Godlie Dreame; D.Delmar Evans Lilias Skene: A Quaker Poet and Her 'Cursed Self'; G.DesBrisay Scottish Women's Religious Autobiography, 1660-1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self; D.G.Mullan PART III: ARCHIVAL WOMEN Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culcross: An Oeuvre Decupled; J.Reid-Baxter A Checklist of Early Modern Women's Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland; S.Trill Index