The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set
Jennifer Keith, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
$289.00
USDThis 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. Writer and critic of the Glorious Revolution, Finch imparts rare insights into this watershed of political and cultural values. Her work represents a complex convergence of artistic innovation, political allegiance, and personal passion.
- The first ever complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
- Provides established texts of all Finch's poems, plays, and letters, organized by their appearance in Finch's authorized collections
- Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary
Reviews & endorsements
‘The attention to Finch's accomplishments and the notes about the events and personages mentioned in the works result in a resource that offers a unique understanding of Finch's status in her own time. The documentation alone makes it valuable to serious students and scholars of 18th-century literature.’ M. H. Kealy, Choice
‘The two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch: Countess of Winchelsea allows us to imagine an alternative Age of Finch. The editors, Claudia Kairoff and Jennifer Keith, have completed with astonishing thoroughness, sensitivity, and seriousness one of the landmark pieces of eighteenth-century scholarship of this century … Against centuries of incomplete attention to Finch, Keith and Kairoff have “redeemed” her in a triumphant act of feminist intervention and recovery.’ Andrew Black, Digital Defoe
Product details
June 2021Multiple copy pack
9780521196222
1400 pages
223 × 143 × 100 mm
2.38kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Note
- General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden
- Textual introduction Jennifer Keith
- Account of the texts Jennifer Keith
- Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith
- From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript)
- Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript)
- Some Pieces out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso
- The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: A Tragecomedy
- Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: A Tragedy
- Additional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral
- Explanatory and textual notes
- List of source copies
- Select bibliography
- Index of titles
- Index of first lines. Volume 2: 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.
