Lost Property

The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589

By: Jennifer Summit

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Hardcover | 1 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The English literary canon is haunted by the figure of the lost woman writer. In our own age, she has been a powerful stimulus for the rediscovery of works written by women. But as Jennifer Summit argues, "the lost woman writer" also served as an evocative symbol during the very formation of an English literary tradition from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.
"Lost Property" traces the representation of women writers from Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, exploring how the woman writer became a focal point for emerging theories of literature and authorship in English precisely because of her perceived alienation from tradition. Through original archival research and readings of key literary texts, Summit writes a new history of the woman writer that reflects the impact of such developments as the introduction of printing, the Reformation, and the rise of the English court as a literary center.
A major rethinking of the place of women writers in the histories of books, authorship, and canon-formation, "Lost Property" demonstrates that, rather than being an unimaginable anomaly, the idea of the woman writer played a key role in the invention of English literature.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Early Woman Writer and the Uses of Loss	p. 1
Following Corinne: Chaucer's Classical Women Writers	p. 23
"Evir wemenis frend"	p. 23
Dido's Poetics of Absence	p. 33
Following Corinne: Anelida and the "Lost" Woman Writer	p. 39
Refiguring Criseyde	p. 49
The City of Ladies in the Library of Gentlemen: Christine de Pizan in England, 1450-1526	p. 61
Lost in Translation	p. 61
The Learned Knight and the Fiction of "Dame Christine"	p. 71
From "Aucteresse" to Auctor: The Morale Proverbes of Caxton and Pynson	p. 81
The City of Ladies in the Library of Gentlemen	p. 93
The Reformation of the Woman Writer	p. 109
English Literary History and the Pious Woman	p. 109
The Fifteen Oes and the Reformation of Devotion	p. 111
Margery Kempe as "Devout Anchoress": Henry Pepwell's Edition of 1521	p. 126
John Bale's Protestant Bibliography and the Lost History of Women	p. 138
Bentley's Monument of Matrones (1582) and the Recovery of Women's Prayer	p. 157
"A Ladies Penne": Elizabeth I and the Making of English Poetry	p. 163
"With Lady Sapphoes Pen"	p. 163
"The Arte of a Ladies Penne"	p. 173
The Poetics of Queenship	p. 180
The Covert Place of Women's Writing	p. 185
"Chere Soeur": The Queen of England and the Queen of Scots	p. 193
Afterword: Literary History without Women	p. 203
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 267
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