Critics and Criticism in the Poetry of Anne Finch

ELH ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gavin
Keyword(s):  
Anne Finch

The ‘Glorious Revolution’ and the Court in Exile

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
John Dryden ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
Jane Barker ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

The birth of an heir to King James and Mary of Modena led to a crisis, with allegations that the child was not legitimate. Whig politicians were alarmed by the promotion of openly practicing Catholics in the army and at the court. Upon the invasion by William, the court fled into exile in France, establishing a rival court at St. Germain. While in exile, Jacobite poets including Jane Barker created manuscript volumes of verse and fiction to be published later. In England, supporters of King James including Heneage and Anne Finch retreated from London into a quiet exile in the countryside, and John Dryden was removed from his post as Poet Laureate.

Succession

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
William Iii ◽  
Samuel Pepys

This chapter introduces and explores the full spectrum of positions on the succession across a range of texts responding to the deaths of William III and James II. It demonstrates the collapse of earlier norms of royal mourning by unearthing how royal elegy—a sacrosanct genre in the seventeenth century—became a vehicle for opposition satire. Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Samuel Pepys, and William Pittis were all involved in writing or circulating Jacobite libels in manuscript. Examining the scribal circulation of satires sheds new light on their political allegiances and networks. The chapter ends with a sustained contextual examination of Daniel Defoe’s poem The Mock Mourners.

Percepción sensible e imaginación en la filosofía de Anne Conway

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-834
Author(s):  
Viridiana Platas Benítez
Keyword(s):  
Anne Finch

La filosofía de Anne Finch, Viscondesa de Conway ha sido estudiada desde la perspectiva del papel crítico de su monismo vitalista frente a la filosofía de sus contemporáneos, así como en la valoración de su papel en la historia de la filosofía. No obstante, la atención que han recibido sus tesis epistemológicas ha sido escasa en razón del carácter fragmentario de sus Principios de la más antigua y moderna filosofía (1690). El presente artículo parte de la idea de que es posible sistematizar la filosofía de esta autora moderna, lo cual, implica la reconstrucción de sus tesis epistemológicas a través de los conceptos de percepción sensible e imaginación. Lo anterior, nos permitirá no sólo comprender estas tesis bajo la lógica de su correlación con la ontología y la filosofía moral de Conway, también permite acceder a una propuesta original alterna a los modelos mecanicistas imperantes en la época.

Fable and Allegory

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Gillian Wright
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Aphra Behn ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Anne Finch

Between the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, fable—already a well-established didactic mode, often directed towards children—came increasingly to be used for satirical purposes. The work of three important writers—Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and Anne Finch—illustrates both the range and the particularity of fables during this period. While, collectively, these poets’ work differs greatly in terms of form, style, and appropriative methods, all three were strong royalists (later Jacobites) whose fables were devised to serve broadly pro-Stuart ends. This chapter investigates why fable rose to prominence during the fraught years before and after the 1688 Revolution, and how its literary properties were differentially exploited by Behn, Dryden, and Finch (given the varying political and publishing circumstances in which each was working). It also considers the reasons for the decline of the satirical fable in the mid-eighteenth century.

Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mary Astell ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
Female Writers

The nature of the female sex and roles of women in the family were being increasing debated by both male and female writers. Satires against marriage, fashions, and women’s perverse natures by male writers such as Robert Gould triggered defences of the female sex by women writers including Mary Astell, Bathsua Makin, Sarah Figes, Anne Finch, Judith Drake, and Mary More. These women focused on the need for women’s education and their legal situation within marriage.

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