Labour's loves? Isabella Whitney, Leonard Wheatcroft and the love miscellany. Issue 8 (14th September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wiseman, Susan
• Is Part Of: Textual practice. Volume 33:Issue 8(2019)
• Page Start: 1363
• Page End: 1387
• Publication Date: 2019-09-14
• Subjects: Miscellanies -- love lyric -- status -- non-elite -- print -- manuscript -- Leonard Wheatcroft -- Isabella Whitney -- Tottell -- Heroides -- Ovid; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals; Semiotics -- Periodicals; 801.95
• DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2019.1648105
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-236X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay investigates the place of non-elite makers of miscellanies in print and manuscript. It analyses the parts of Richard Jones and Isabella Whitney in shaping Copy of a Letter (1567) and Leonard Wheatcroft's mid-seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, 'Cum ye gallants' to ask how these miscellanists and poets used the material available to them to explore love. The essay argues for a reconsideration of the assumption that non-elite miscellanists had a socially aspirational relationship to the genre of the miscellany and suggests that they rather used cultural resources to enunciate the issues of their own world.