April 2019 – Axes of Uncertainty and Recovering Women’s Voices in Early Modern Miscellanies.
Eric McCarthy for the SSEMWG Blog I am delighted to contribute a blog post on the theme of “Power, Authority, and Women's Voices in Early Modern Texts, Criticism, and the Academy Today,” not least because it relates to the work I’ve been doing for the ERC-funded project "RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700" over the last few years. I began with what seemed like a straightforward question: which female-authored works were transcribed most often in manuscript miscellanies? It was easy enough to produce a ranked list of the works in the miscellanies we had consulted,…