Playing Football with the Stars: Hester Pulter Rethinks the Metaphysical Astronomy Poem.
In several poems, seventeenth-century writer Hester Pulter depicts freedom as only possible after death; but in Poem 38, she claims her "fancies" allow her spirit to leave her gendered body until, she writes, "Methinks I play at football with the stars" (ll. 8-12). Depicting the Earth as a sphere, a...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 169 - 192 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2020
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