Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing

Chapter 1 The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in Scotland’s Second War of Independence

Chapter 2 War and Truce: Women in The Wallace

Chapter 3 Chrystis Kirk on the Grene and Peblis to the Ploy: The Economy of Gender

Chapter 4 Women Fictional and Historic in Sir David Lyndsay’s Poetry

Chapter 5 Chastity in the Stocks: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis

Chapter 6 The ‘Fenӡeit’ and the Feminine: Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry

Chapter 7 A Methodology for Reading Against the Culture: Anonymous, Women Poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript (c.1586)

Chapter 8 An Unequal Correspondence: Epistolary and Poetic Exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England

Chapter 9 Daughterly Desires: Representing and Reimagining the Feminine in Anna Hume’s Triumphs

Chapter 10 ‘Neither Out nor In’ : Scottish Gaelic Women Poets 1650–1750

Chapter 11 Holy Terror and Love Divine: The Passionate Voice in Elizabeth Melville’s Ane Godlie Dreame

Chapter 12 Lilias Skene: A Quaker Poet and her ‘Cursed Self’

Chapter 13 Scottish Women’s Religious Narrative, 1660–1720: Constructing the Evangelical Self

Chapter 14 Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: 3500 New Lines of Verse