Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Notes on Contributors vii
5. Introduction: 'Voice that is Mine' 1
6. The Word and the Throne: John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 11
7. Engendering Penitence: Nicholas Breton and 'the Countesse of Penbrooke' 25
8. Women Writers and Women Readers: The Case of Aemilia Lanier 45
9. The Canonization of Elizabeth Cary 55
10. Dionys Fitzherbert and the Anatomy of Madness 69
11. The Torture of Limen a: Sex and Violence in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania 93
12. The Iconography of the Blush: Marian Literature of the 1630s 111
13. Playing the 'Masculine Part': Finding a Difference within Behn's Poetry 129
14. Read Within: Gender, Cultural Difference and Quaker Women's Travel Narratives 153
15. Contra-dictions: Women as Figures of Exclusion and Resistance in John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont's Narratives 173
16. Seditious Sisterhood: Women Publishers of Opposition Literature at the Restoration 185
17. Index 196