culture and rhetoric of the answer poem 1485-1626

The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer Poem: 1485-1626

SECTION 1: POLEMIC: FLYTING, LIBEL AND SATIRE

Chapter 1: Responses to Libel and Satire

  1. The Verse Libel
    1. A Sociological Perspective
    2. Verbal Duelling
    3. Proclamatory Answers
  2. The Verse Satire
    1. Self Publicising Tudor Satirists
    2. John Skelton
    3. John Marston

Chapter 2: Domestic and Cross-Cultural Flyting

  1. Cross-Cultural Flyting
    1. Anglo-French Flyting
    2. Anglo-Scottish Flyting
  2. Domestic Flyting
    1. John Skelton and Christopher Garnish
    2. Thomas Smyth and William Gray
    3. Thomas Churchyard and Thomas Camel
    4. John Taylor and William Fennor

SECTION 2: MARRIAGE, FRIENDSHIP COURTSHIP/COURTIERSHIP

Chapter 3: Answer Poetry and Marriage: 1550-1570

  1. Pros and Cons of Marriage
  2. Duties of Husbands and Wives

Chapter 4: Late Tudor Amicable Verse Exchanges

  1. Barnabe Googe
  2. Isabella Whitney
  3. John Donne

Chapter 5: Women's answer-poetry and the female-voiced response

  1. Henrician Answer Poetry
  2. Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Answer Poetry
    1. Elizabeth I
    2. Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
    3. Lady Mary Cheke
    4. Lady Mary Wroth



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epistles her point of view is regulated by that of the men corresponding with her. 352 Only when she shuts herself off from them and envisages her impending death does she attempt to find an independent female voice able to carp about gender inequality on her own terms (as Wendy Wall observes, her legacy to London of nothing highlights, among other grievances, the injustice of the patrilineal transmission of property). 353 Whitney takes a highly roundabout route here in order to manufacture a space in which she can express a distinctly independent female subjectivity and she achieves this by casting off the male dominated narratives that permeate and cascade through the miscellany under the influence of her borrowing from Plat’s moral philosophy. In Chapter Five I will explore some equally forthright, although less circumlocutionary, instances of women using the answer-poem as a vehicle through which to contest the preponderance of the masculine subject position.

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John Donne’s Provocative RSVPs and his Philosophy of Friendship in his Familiar Verse Epistles

That the sharing of knowledge and advice, and that the attainment of consensus, are

352 See sigs Aivv and Avi-Aviii, for instance. These two texts are reprinted together from the original editions in The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Plat and A Sweet Nosgay (1573); and The Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney: Photoreproductions, with an Introduction by Richard J. Panofsky (H. Bynneman and F. Coldocke, 1572 and printed by Richard Jones, 1573 and 1567; repr. Delmar, NY: Scholar, 1982).

353 Wall (1991), p.51.



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