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KATHERINE PHILIPS: FRIENDSHIP AND RETIREMENT KATHERINE PHILIPS: FRIENDSHIP AND RETIREMENT
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LUCY HUTCHINSON: RETIREMENT IN VERSE LUCY HUTCHINSON: RETIREMENT IN VERSE
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CONCLUSION CONCLUSION
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FURTHER READING FURTHER READING
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40 The Topopoetics of Retirement in Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson
Get accessJames Loxley is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on many aspects of seventeenth-century poetry, drama, and politics, including his first monograph, Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars, which explored the ways in which the polemicisation of culture in the 1630s and 1640s shaped the practice of poetry within both established and improvised institutional frameworks. He has further pursued some of these questions in work on Katherine Philips, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes, and John Milton. He has also written extensively on Ben Jonson and the dynamics of Jacobean literary and theatrical culture, including—with Anna Groundwater and Julie Sanders—an edition of a hitherto unknown eyewitness account of Jonson’s walk from London to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618. His other publications include a study of the theory of performativity from Austin to Butler and a co-authored exploration, with Mark Robson, of the claims of the performative in the context of early modern drama. He has also led a number of digital humanities projects, focusing in particular on digital literary mapping, and co-curated an exhibition on Shakespeare in Scottish collections at the National Library of Scotland in 2011–2012. His current research and knowledge exchange work includes an edition of Dekker’s The Shoemakers’ Holiday for Arden Early Modern Drama, digital literary projects with the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and a monograph on Ben Jonson and the experience of work.
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Published:19 December 2022
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Abstract
This chapter explores the place of the poetics of retirement in the work of Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. The idea of retirement as a way of life counterposed to public engagement, as a leisured otium contrasted with negotium, is a commonplace of early modern culture. In the middle of the seventeenth century, in the political and military conflicts of the wars of the three kingdoms, retirement was also configured as exile, or an involuntary removal from the public sphere. A crucial consideration here is the fact that the contrasting evaluations of the meaning of retirement were gendered. An exploration of how Hutchinson and Philips articulated the experience of retirement allows us to see not only how women positioned themselves in relation to this cultural topos, but also how their writing became a way of making them both visible and audible within a cultural framework that might otherwise occlude them.
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