Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.M.Dunnigan PART I: WRITTEN WOMAN The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in the Second War of Scottish Independence; E.Ewan War and Truce: Aspects of Women in The Wallace; I.B.Milfull Chrystis Kirk and Peblis: Textual Containment of the Burghal Woman; C.M.Harker Women Fictional and Real in Sir David Lyndsay's Poetry; J.Hadley Williams Chastity in the Stocks: Sex in Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; G.P.J.Epp The 'Fein3it' and the Feminine: Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry; K.J.McGinley PART II: WRITING WOMEN A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript; E.S.Newlyn An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I; M.R.Fleming Petrarch's Dutiful Daughter?: Anna Hume's Triumphs and the Translation of the Feminine; S.M.Dunnigan Neither Out Nor In: Scottish Gaelic Women Poets, 1650-1750; C.Ó.Baoill Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville's Ane Godlie Dreame; D.Delmar Evans Lilias Skene: A Quaker Poet and Her 'Cursed Self'; G.DesBrisay Scottish Women's Religious Autobiography, 1660-1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self; D.G.Mullan PART III: ARCHIVAL WOMEN Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culcross: An Oeuvre Decupled; J.Reid-Baxter A Checklist of Early Modern Women's Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland; S.Trill Index