The Surviving Works Of Anne Wharton
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At the crossroads of Restoration passion and feminine literary defiance stands Anne Wharton — niece of the Earl of Rochester, poet, and one of the most poignant voices of seventeenth-century England — whose collected works, gathered here in their entirety, represent a rare and extraordinary window into a world where women wrote at great personal risk. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, meticulously edited by G. Greer and S. Hastings with scholarly textual notes and commentary, presents Wharton's poetry and prose in a definitive scholarly edition, recovering a literary legacy that history had all but silenced. Wharton's verse, deeply influenced by her celebrated uncle John Wilmot, chronicles themes of grief, love, religious devotion, and feminine endurance with a lyrical intensity that rivals her more famous contemporaries. This edition stands as a landmark in the recovery of women's writing from the Restoration period, situating Wharton firmly within the literary and cultural debates of her age. Greer and Hastings bring formidable scholarly authority to the task, contextualising each work with historical precision and critical insight that illuminates both the personal and political dimensions of Wharton's output. For anyone captivated by the hidden histories of women's literature or the turbulent literary culture of late Stuart England, this volume poses an irresistible question: what other voices has history chosen to forget?
Author: G. Greer & S. Hastings
Format: Hardback
Published: 1997, Stump Cross Books
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of Restoration passion and feminine literary defiance stands Anne Wharton — niece of the Earl of Rochester, poet, and one of the most poignant voices of seventeenth-century England — whose collected works, gathered here in their entirety, represent a rare and extraordinary window into a world where women wrote at great personal risk. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, meticulously edited by G. Greer and S. Hastings with scholarly textual notes and commentary, presents Wharton's poetry and prose in a definitive scholarly edition, recovering a literary legacy that history had all but silenced. Wharton's verse, deeply influenced by her celebrated uncle John Wilmot, chronicles themes of grief, love, religious devotion, and feminine endurance with a lyrical intensity that rivals her more famous contemporaries. This edition stands as a landmark in the recovery of women's writing from the Restoration period, situating Wharton firmly within the literary and cultural debates of her age. Greer and Hastings bring formidable scholarly authority to the task, contextualising each work with historical precision and critical insight that illuminates both the personal and political dimensions of Wharton's output. For anyone captivated by the hidden histories of women's literature or the turbulent literary culture of late Stuart England, this volume poses an irresistible question: what other voices has history chosen to forget?