Review of Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing.(Book review)

Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle

Sarah Dunnigan, C. Marie Harker and Evelyn S. Newlyn, eds. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xxx+238pp. ISBN 1 4039 1181 9.

Jon Robinson

University of Northumbria

john.robinson@unn.ac.uk

Robinson, Jon. "Review of Sarah Dunnigan, C. Marie Harker and Evelyn S. Newlyn, eds. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 8.1-5 .

In the introduction to this collection of essays from well-known and some less familiar names, Sarah Dunnigan suggests that the collection is a preliminary step toward a fuller understanding of women and literature in medieval and early modern Scottish literature. To a certain extent the collection adequately fulfils this remit through suggestive, imaginative readings and analysis of both canonical and non-canonical Scots texts, such as the frequently studied Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, and the newly discovered verse of...

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