Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in Scotland’s Second War of Independence....Pages 3-18
War and Truce: Women in The Wallace ....Pages 19-30
 Chrystis Kirk on the Grene and Peblis to the Ploy: The Economy of Gender....Pages 31-46
Women Fictional and Historic in Sir David Lyndsay’s Poetry....Pages 47-60
Chastity in the Stocks: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis ....Pages 61-73
The ‘Fenӡeit’ and the Feminine: Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry....Pages 74-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript (c.1586)....Pages 89-103
An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England....Pages 104-119
Daughterly Desires: Representing and Reimagining the Feminine in Anna Hume’s Triumphs ....Pages 120-135
‘Neither Out nor In’ : Scottish Gaelic Women Poets 1650–1750....Pages 136-152
Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville’s Ane Godlie Dreame ....Pages 153-161
Lilias Skene: A Quaker Poet and her ‘Cursed Self’....Pages 162-177
Scottish Women’s Religious Narrative, 1660–1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self....Pages 178-191
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Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: 3500 New Lines of Verse....Pages 195-200
Early Modern Women’s Writing in the Edinburgh Archives, c. 1550–1740: a Preliminary Checklist....Pages 201-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-238