Susan Wiseman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Wiseman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiseman |
| SIGNATURE | WISEMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labour's loves? Isabella Whitney, Leonard Wheatcroft and the love miscellany
This essay investigates the place of non-elite makers of miscellanies in print and manuscript. It analyses the parts of Richard Jones and Isabella Whitney in shaping Copy of a Letter (1567) and Leonard Wheatcroft's mid-seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, 'Cum ye gallants' to ask how these miscellanists and poets used the material available to them to explore love. The essay argues for a reconsideration of the assumption that non-elite misc…
Loving beasts
Rethinking Renaissance loves
How was ‘love’ understood in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English secular vernacular writing, and what critical approaches illuminate that? The essays and short position pieces in this volume
No “Publick funerall”? Lucy Hutchinson’s elegy, epitaph, monument
What were uses of mourning and memory in post-Civil War England, and what evidence can be used to investigate this? This essay responds to these questions using Lucy Hutchinson's elegies for her husband, Colonel John Hutchinson, who died in 1664 being incarcerated in Sandown castle by Restoration regime. Accordingly, this essay draws on Kate Lilley's foundational discussion of gendering of elegy, particularly inefficiency and failure to seal off …
Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
Romes wanton Ovid’
Perfectly Ovidian’? Dryden's Epistles, Behn's ‘Oenone’, Yarico's Island
Taking as its starting point John Dryden's multi‐authored translation of Ovid's Heroides , Ovid's Epistles Translated by Several Hands (1680) this essay asks what seemed to readers to characterize the Heroides in Restoration England. The essay explores the modes of satire and pathos in the reception of Ovid in the period after the publication of Dryden's influential volume. First, it traces satirical reaction, asking about the possible invitation…
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment …
At the Borders of the Human
Refashioning Ben Jonson
No “Publick funerall”? Lucy Hutchinson’s elegy, epitaph, monument
What were uses of mourning and memory in post-Civil War England, and what evidence can be used to investigate this? This essay responds to these questions using Lucy Hutchinson's elegies for her husband, Colonel John Hutchinson, who died in 1664 being incarcerated in Sandown castle by Restoration regime. Accordingly, this essay draws on Kate Lilley's foundational discussion of gendering of elegy, particularly inefficiency and failure to seal off …
Refashioning Ben Jonson
At the Borders of the Human
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment …
Romes wanton Ovid’
Perfectly Ovidian’? Dryden's Epistles, Behn's ‘Oenone’, Yarico's Island
Taking as its starting point John Dryden's multi‐authored translation of Ovid's Heroides , Ovid's Epistles Translated by Several Hands (1680) this essay asks what seemed to readers to characterize the Heroides in Restoration England. The essay explores the modes of satire and pathos in the reception of Ovid in the period after the publication of Dryden's influential volume. First, it traces satirical reaction, asking about the possible invitation…
Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
No “Publick funerall”? Lucy Hutchinson’s elegy, epitaph, monument
What were uses of mourning and memory in post-Civil War England, and what evidence can be used to investigate this? This essay responds to these questions using Lucy Hutchinson's elegies for her husband, Colonel John Hutchinson, who died in 1664 being incarcerated in Sandown castle by Restoration regime. Accordingly, this essay draws on Kate Lilley's foundational discussion of gendering of elegy, particularly inefficiency and failure to seal off …
Labour's loves? Isabella Whitney, Leonard Wheatcroft and the love miscellany
This essay investigates the place of non-elite makers of miscellanies in print and manuscript. It analyses the parts of Richard Jones and Isabella Whitney in shaping Copy of a Letter (1567) and Leonard Wheatcroft's mid-seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, 'Cum ye gallants' to ask how these miscellanists and poets used the material available to them to explore love. The essay argues for a reconsideration of the assumption that non-elite misc…
Loving beasts
Rethinking Renaissance loves
How was ‘love’ understood in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English secular vernacular writing, and what critical approaches illuminate that? The essays and short position pieces in this volume
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