The noble flame of Katherine Philips : a poetics of culture, politics, and friendship

Folger bibliographic ID: 343772
Folger call number: PR3619.P4 Z85 2015
Folger holdings ID: 494608

"This collection of essays devoted to Interregnum and Restoration poet Katherine Philips explores cultural poetics and the courtly coterie, innovation and influence in poetic and political form, and articulations of female friendship, homoeroticism, and retreat"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

1. Katherine Philips and the post-courtly coterie / Catharine Gray -- 2. The failure of Royalist heroic virtue : Philips's "On the 3. of September, 1651" / Christopher Orchard -- 3. Biblical poetics, Royalist politics, and anti-eschatological prophecy in Philips's poetry / David L. Orvis -- 4. Restoring Orinda's Face : Puritan iconoclasm and Philips's Poems as Royalist remonumentalization / Amy Scott-Douglass -- 5. Inventing the English Sappho : Katherine Philips's Donnean poetry / Paula Loscocco -- 6. Katherine Philips at the wedding / Elizabeth Hodgson -- 7. The conjuncture of word, music, and performance practice in Philips's era / Linda Phyllis Austern -- 8. "Friendship so Curst" : Amor Impossibilis, the homoerotic lament, and the nature of lesbian desire / Valerie Traub -- 9. The body of the friend and the woman writer : Katherine Philips's absence from Alan Bray's The Friend / Lorna Hutson -- 10. Versions of pastoral: Philips and women's queer spaces / Harriette Andreadis

Extended title: The noble flame of Katherine Philips : a poetics of culture, politics, and friendship / edited by David L. Orvis and Ryan Singh Paul

Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664

subject: Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664
editor: Orvis, David L.
editor: Paul, Ryan Singh, 1976-