"Feminist Formalisms and Early Modern Women's Writing marks a coming into its prime for the field of early modern women's literary studies. Indeed, the bibliographies associated with each of the essays across the volume provide an excellent overview of current and central scholarship for a wide range of writers and genres within and outside the standard "early modern women writers" canon and should serve as a welcome reference to anyone embarking upon a new investigation of their own. The essays themselves illuminate the strength and versatility of the methods for which Dodds, Dowd, and the contributors so adeptly advocate."—Karen L. Nelson, Journal of British Studies
“A feminist formalist is exactly what is needed at this moment to integrate the study of early modern women writers into the literary canon. All of the contributions are clearly written and highly readable, and the entire collection is a pleasure to read, without exception. . . . The pedagogy section of this collection offers useful, practical advice. This groundbreaking collection is both brilliant and necessary. It will find a wide audience among researchers, teachers, and students.”—Paula McQuade, author of Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
“A significant and particularly timely contribution to the field of early modern women’s writing. . . . What is striking here is that most of the contributors to this collection have established reputations in a wide variety of areas in the field, yet their astute and thorough-going investigations of the subject in relation to bodies of women’s writings with which they are intimately familiar are eye-opening. This flexibility and facility speaks both to the deep expertise possessed by the contributors and to the profit to be gained through formalist critique.”—Patricia Phillippy, editor of A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing
