The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set)

Finch, Anne/ Keith, Jennifer (EDT)/ Kairoff, Claudia Thomas (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2021/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 798 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107068650
• DDC分類 828.509

Full Description

This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. This second volume provides established texts of Finch's later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript, as well as uncollected poems and letters.

Contents

List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff and Jennifer Keith; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith and R. Carter Hailey; From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions; The Wellesley Manuscript; Additional poems; Explanatory and textual notes; Correspondence; A reception and transmission history of Finch's work: illustrative cases from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries Rachel Bowman; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.