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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; M.Suzuki PART I: NETWORKS, DEBATES, TRADITIONS, DISCOURSES  Identifying as (Women) Writers; P.Salzman Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; M.Matchinske All about Eve: Seventeenth Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; S.Miller English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; K.Gillespie PART II: MODES AND SITES  Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; V.Burke Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters; S.Wiseman Women's Self-Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Monuments; P.Phillippy PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY GENRES 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy; C.Kinney Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-first Century; P.Hammons Early Modern Englishwomen Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; M.Wynne-Davies History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; M.Reeves PART IV: REVISIONING CONTEXTS Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Early Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish's Plays; T.Jankowski 'The Empire of Man over the inferiour Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science; C.Malcolmson Questioning Gender, War, and the 'Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish; J.Wright Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace; M.Suzuki English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-90; B.Andrea Bibliography Index