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Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth met with disgrace at court for her authorship of a prose romance, which was adjudged an inappropriate endeavor for a woman and was forcibly withdrawn from publication. Only recently has recognition of Wroth's historical and literary importance been signaled by the publication of the first modern edition of her romance, The Countess of Mou

Renaissance --- Sex role in literature. --- Authorship --- Women and literature --- Sex differences. --- History --- Wroth, Mary, --- Wroath, Mary, --- Wroth, Mary Sidney,

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English literature --- Women and literature --- Literary patrons --- Authors and patrons --- History and criticism --- History --- Women authors --- Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, --- Hoby, Margaret, --- Bedford, Lucy Russell, --- Wroth, Mary, --- Sociology of literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- France --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Women and literature - England - History - 16th century --- Women and literature - England - History - 17th century --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Literary patrons - England --- Authors and patrons - Europe - History - 16th century --- Authors and patrons - Europe - History - 17th century --- Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, - Countess of, - 1561-1621 --- Hoby, Margaret, - Lady, - 1570 or 1571-1633 --- Bedford, Lucy Russell, - Countess of, - -1627 --- Wroth, Mary, - Lady, - approximately 1586-approximately 1640

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Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seemingly insentient states might actually enable self-formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory, trauma theory, and affect theory, this volume envisions sleep states as a means of defining the human condition, both literally and metaphorically. The contributors examine a range of archival sources—including texts in early modern faculty psychology, printed and manuscript medical treatises and physicians’ notes, and printed ephemera on pathological sleep—through the lenses of both classical and contemporary philosophy. Essays apply these frameworks to genres such as drama, secular lyric, prose treatise, epic, and religious verse. Taken together, these essays demonstrate how early modern depictions of sleep shape, and are shaped by, the philosophical, medical, political, and, above all, formal discourses through which they are articulated. With this in mind, the question of form merges considerations of the physical and the poetic with the spiritual and the secular, highlighting the pervasiveness of sleep states as a means by which to reflect on the human condition. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Brian Chalk, Jennifer Lewin, Cassie Miura, Benjamin Parris, Giulio Pertile, N. Amos Rothschild, Garret A. Sullivan Jr., and Timothy A. Turner.

Consciousness in literature. --- Sleep in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Biocultural. --- Consciousness. --- Drama. --- Early Modern. --- England. --- Epic. --- Form. --- Formalism. --- Genre. --- Literature. --- Lyric. --- Mary Sidney. --- Mary Wroth. --- Milton. --- Petrarch. --- Philip Sidney. --- Renaissance. --- Robert Burton. --- Shakespeare. --- Sleep State. --- Sleep. --- Spenser. --- Thomas Campion.