Sarah C E Ross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah C E Ross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah C E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ross |
| SIGNATURE | ROSS S C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0434-7365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
This Handbook is a research-based book that attempts to define the field, and to gesture towards future configurations in the light of developments over the past thirty years. The Handbook will build on and complement existing overviews of early modern women’s writing but will have a more conceptual and theoretical focus in addition to extending historical and critical work. It will also integrate the disciplinary challenges raised by early moder…
Presenting a Book to Orinda”
New York Public Library, Drexel MS 4175 has long been of interest to scholars of early modern music. Titled “Songs vnto the violl and lute” and inscribed “Anne Twice, Her Booke”, The manuscript contains a collection of songs for a woman’s musical practice and performance in the 1620s. It also, however, contains five poems that have received no attention, including one of outstanding interest: a previously unnoticed poem in praise of Katherine Phi…
How The Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) presented an engraving of a bookworm, a creature who devoured books and already figured the avid reader. The image launches a history of efforts to render visible—empirically verifiable—the bookworm. Repeatedly, the effort fails: Hooke is not the last to claim that he captured the critter, nor the last to mistake what he finds (his is a silverfish). Traces of devoured books appeared in every library, but what di…
Beyond Ovid
Early Modern Women's Complaint
Brave Hermeneutics, the Eastern Question, and Kingsley's Hypatia
This article places Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia (1852–53) within the context of the escalating conflict later to become the Crimean War. Resituating the novel against the backdrop of the Eastern Question circa 1851 allows us to make sense of Kingsley’s scenes of Gothic apathy, manly heroism, and religio-political war more broadly. This essay argues that Kingsley thematizes and stages questions of hermeneutics in order to enter mid-century debates …
Editing Early Modern Women
Mediatrix
Mediatrix has to be one of the best titles for a book on early modern women, and indeed on social literary authorship conceived across the bounds of gender, in recent years. John Donne uses the term in a letter to Sir Henry Goodere, wondering if Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford, might be the most effective intermediary between himself and the right people in early Jacobean cultural and political circles. The author, Julie Crawford, pic…
Like Penelope, always employed’
Ever since Virginia Woolf evocatively imagined the frustrated existence and tragic demise of Shakespeare’s sister, the search for the literary texts of early modern women has been bound up with the search for traces of their lives. Women’s life‐writings in the early modern period, however, are often impersonal and rarely present a unified sense of self, instead occurring most frequently in generically fluid forms, and producing fragmentary subjec…
Tears, Bezoars and Blazing Comets
Hester Pulter composed her verse during the 1640s and 1650s in a kind of royalist retirement at her country home of Broadfield, Hertfordshire, and her biographical isolation is mirrored in a poetic preoccupation with loss. Contributing to the sense that her verse might encapsulate a ‘female aesthetic’ of retreat (a phrase that has been used of male, royalist devotional writers) is the predominance in her verse of a discourse of sighs and tears. I…
Tears, Bezoars and Blazing Comets
Hester Pulter composed her verse during the 1640s and 1650s in a kind of royalist retirement at her country home of Broadfield, Hertfordshire, and her biographical isolation is mirrored in a poetic preoccupation with loss. Contributing to the sense that her verse might encapsulate a ‘female aesthetic’ of retreat (a phrase that has been used of male, royalist devotional writers) is the predominance in her verse of a discourse of sighs and tears. I…
Tears, Bezoars and Blazing Comets
Hester Pulter composed her verse during the 1640s and 1650s in a kind of royalist retirement at her country home of Broadfield, Hertfordshire, and her biographical isolation is mirrored in a poetic preoccupation with loss. Contributing to the sense that her verse might encapsulate a ‘female aesthetic’ of retreat (a phrase that has been used of male, royalist devotional writers) is the predominance in her verse of a discourse of sighs and tears. I…
Like Penelope, always employed’
Ever since Virginia Woolf evocatively imagined the frustrated existence and tragic demise of Shakespeare’s sister, the search for the literary texts of early modern women has been bound up with the search for traces of their lives. Women’s life‐writings in the early modern period, however, are often impersonal and rarely present a unified sense of self, instead occurring most frequently in generically fluid forms, and producing fragmentary subjec…
Editing Early Modern Women
Mediatrix
Mediatrix has to be one of the best titles for a book on early modern women, and indeed on social literary authorship conceived across the bounds of gender, in recent years. John Donne uses the term in a letter to Sir Henry Goodere, wondering if Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford, might be the most effective intermediary between himself and the right people in early Jacobean cultural and political circles. The author, Julie Crawford, pic…
Brave Hermeneutics, the Eastern Question, and Kingsley's Hypatia
This article places Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia (1852–53) within the context of the escalating conflict later to become the Crimean War. Resituating the novel against the backdrop of the Eastern Question circa 1851 allows us to make sense of Kingsley’s scenes of Gothic apathy, manly heroism, and religio-political war more broadly. This essay argues that Kingsley thematizes and stages questions of hermeneutics in order to enter mid-century debates …
How The Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) presented an engraving of a bookworm, a creature who devoured books and already figured the avid reader. The image launches a history of efforts to render visible—empirically verifiable—the bookworm. Repeatedly, the effort fails: Hooke is not the last to claim that he captured the critter, nor the last to mistake what he finds (his is a silverfish). Traces of devoured books appeared in every library, but what di…
Beyond Ovid
Early Modern Women's Complaint
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
This Handbook is a research-based book that attempts to define the field, and to gesture towards future configurations in the light of developments over the past thirty years. The Handbook will build on and complement existing overviews of early modern women’s writing but will have a more conceptual and theoretical focus in addition to extending historical and critical work. It will also integrate the disciplinary challenges raised by early moder…
Presenting a Book to Orinda”
New York Public Library, Drexel MS 4175 has long been of interest to scholars of early modern music. Titled “Songs vnto the violl and lute” and inscribed “Anne Twice, Her Booke”, The manuscript contains a collection of songs for a woman’s musical practice and performance in the 1620s. It also, however, contains five poems that have received no attention, including one of outstanding interest: a previously unnoticed poem in praise of Katherine Phi…
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