Professor of English at Bangor University in Wales, Helen Wilcox spoke about her current research at the Renaissance Wednesdays Lecture Series.
Wilcox’s takes what she calls a “slice of life approach” to her work, observing how writers were influencing or interacting with one another within a specific a period of time. Rather than focusing on the text of one writer alone, she draws from an entire textual year of writing and performing, allowing her to look at “second rank” writers and women writers as well.
Here she focuses on 1633, a significant year in the history of English poetry, as it is then that George Herbert and John Donnes were first published.
Wilcox has published over 12 books and many essays including, 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England and Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700.
This talk was recorded March 9th, 2016 at The Renaissance Center at UMass Amherst.
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