CONTENTS
Volume II (2007)

   

Letter from the Editors

 

JANE DONAWERTH,
ADELE SEEFF,
DIANE WOLFTHAL, EDITORS
1

The Breast and Belly of a Queen: Elizabeth After Tilbury

 

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN 5

A Recluse of the Inner Quarters: The Poet Ji Xian (1614-1683)

 

GRACE FONG 29

The Dominicans and Cloistered Women: The Convent of Sant’Aurea in Rome

 

ANNE DUNLOP 43

Reading the Space of the Closet in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

KATHERINE R. LARSON 73

Back Talk: Two Prostitutes’ Voices from Rome c. 1600


ELIZABETH S. COHEN 95

This Music which is not One: Inaudible Order and Representation of the Feminine in Francesca Caccini’s Primo libro delle musiche (1618)

SUSANNE CUSICK 127

Ashgate Undergraduate Prize Abstract: The Princess, the Lady, and the Maid: Gender, Class, and Meaning in Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody and John Webster’s The White Devil

NATASHA LUEPKE 163

A Sweet Nosegay of Scholarship: Publications in English in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004 - 2006

KATHLEEN BARKER,
KAREN L. NELSON,
with RACHEL MCCANN

165

Exhibition Review: Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C., March 16 through July 15, 2007


MARJORIE OCH 193

Book Reviews

   

Justine Siegemund, The Court Midwife


CAROLINE BICKS 199

Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance


PIA F. CUNEO 202

Caroline P. Murphy, The Pope’s Daughter:
The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

LAURA GIANNETTI 205

Allison Levy, Widowhood and Visual Culture
in Early Modern Europe

KATHERINE A. MCIVER 207

Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism
in Early Modern England


B. R. SIEGFRIED 210
Contributors   215