Professor Helen Wilcox

Goruchwyliwr PhD; Athro Emeritws

helen.wilcox@bangor.ac.uk

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Professor Helen Wilcox

Gwelwch proffil Professor Helen Wilcox ar Bortal Ymchwil Bangor
  • DPhil: The Reputation and Influence of George Herbert to 1715
    Oxford University, 1984
  • BA: English Language and Literature
    School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, 1976

My research concentrates on three main areas of early modern English literature: (1) devotional writing, particularly lyric poetry; (2) Shakespeare, particularly the tragicomedies; (3) early women’s writing, particularly poetry and autobiography.

My work on devotional writing focuses on the religious poetry and prose written in English in the seventeenth century, a time of intense dilemmas over devotional identity. I have published many articles on the work of writers such as John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, George Herbert, An Collins, Henry Vaughan, ‘Eliza’ and their contemporaries. My annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 (paperback, 2011) and has been highly acclaimed by fellow-scholars and general readers alike. More recently I co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2017) with my Bangor colleague, Andrew Hiscock. My Shakespeare studies centre on his tragicomedies: that is, his so-called ‘problem plays’ and the romances. These plays are particularly fascinating for their alternative solutions to the challenges of tragedy and comedy, and for their female roles. I have published several essays in the field of gender and genre in Shakespeare, and my Arden 3 edition of All’s Well That Ends Well, co-edited with Suzanne Gossett, is due out in 2018. I also have a long-standing interest in early modern women’s writing, and one of my first books was the co-edited anthology of seventeenth-century women’s autobiographical writings, Her Own Life (1989), which is still in print and seen as a pioneering work in the field. I have also published Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 (1996) and numerous articles on seventeenth-century women authors, raising questions of identity, voice, wit and religion. I contributed the chapter on the early modern period to the Cambridge History of Feminist Literary Criticism.

It will be clear that these three main areas of interest overlap considerably, since the women’s writing on which I work includes many devotional texts, and my focus on Shakespeare highlights issues of gender. They are also linked by certain recurring issues: the definition of genres (lyric, tragicomedy, autobiographical writing); the nature of early modern communities (held together by religious belief, literary allegiances, gender, or family), and the prevailing question of identity in the early modern period. Since none of this research can be carried out on literary works in isolation, the relationships between literature, history, religion, music and the visual arts form the vital interdisciplinary context of my work.  This inter-relation of literature (by women and men), music, devotional experience and political contexts is central to my monograph, 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

2018

  • CyhoeddwydAll's well that ends well
    Gossett, S. (Golygydd) & Wilcox, H. (Golygydd), 29 Tach 2018, 3rd gol. Bloomsbury. 440 t. (The Arden Shakespeare)
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2017

2016

2015

  • CyhoeddwydThe King James Bible in its Cultural Moment
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Killeen, K. (Golygydd), Smith, H. (Golygydd) & Willie, R. (Golygydd), 27 Awst 2015, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England: c. 1530-1700. Oxford University Press
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

2014

2011

  • Cyhoeddwyd"That I may sit and write": Herbert's Presence in Recent British Poetry
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hodgkins, C. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies. 2011 gol. University of Delaware Press, t. 243-256
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • Cyhoeddwyd"When I writt I wept": the epistolary rhetoric of Lady Arbella Stuart
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Bollmann, A. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, A Place of Their Own: Women Writers and their Social Environments (1450-1700). 2011 gol. Peter Lang, t. 87-106
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  • CyhoeddwydEarly Modern Sacred Space: Writing The Temple (141-162)
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Sterrett, J. (Golygydd) & Thomas, P. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, Sacred Text - Sacred Space: Architectural: Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales. 2011 gol. Brill, t. 141-162
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  • CyhoeddwydGeorge Herbert
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Corns, T. N. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell. 2011 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 183-199
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  • CyhoeddwydLiterary Arts
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Kinney, A. F. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance. 2011 gol. Wiley-Blackwell, t. 587-594
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  • CyhoeddwydMeasuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies
    Wilcox, H. E. & Streete, A. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings: 1570-1625. 2011 gol. Palgrave Macmillan, t. 48-67
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • CyhoeddwydNew Directions: Women Beware Women and the Arts of Looking and Listening
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hiscock, A. W. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, Women Beware Women: a critical guide.. 2011 gol. Continuum, t. 121-138
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  • CyhoeddwydSacred desire, forms of belief: The religious sonnet in early modern Britain
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Cousins, A. D. (Golygydd) & Howarth, P. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2011, The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. 2011 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 145-165
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2010

  • Cyhoeddwyd"Hallow'd Fire"; or, When is a Poet not a Priest.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Hodgkins, C. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2010, George Herbert's Pastoral: new essays on the poet and priest of Bemerton. 2010 gol. University of Delaware Press, t. 91-109
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • Cyhoeddwyd‘Ah famous citie’: women, writing, and early modern London
    Wilcox, H. E. & Wilcox, H., 1 Hyd 2010, Yn: Default journal. 96, 1, t. 20-40
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2009

  • Cyhoeddwyd"Joves great Priviledge": Identity and mortality in early modern women's writing.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Ghose, I. (Golygydd) & Renevey, D. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2009, The Construction of Textual Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.. 2009 gol. Gunter Narr Verlag Tubingen, t. 177-197
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • Cyhoeddwyd"This verse marks that": The Bible, editors, and Early Modern English texts.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Finch, J. (Golygydd), Johnson, A. (Golygydd) & Gill, M. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2009, Humane Readings: Essays on Literary Mediation and Communication in Honour of Roger D. Sell. 2009 gol. John Benjamins Publishing Company, t. 17-30
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • CyhoeddwydAnne Clifford and Samuel Pepys: Diaries and Homes.
    Wilcox, H. E. & Wilcox, H., 1 Gorff 2009, Yn: Home Cultures. 6, 2, t. 149-161
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  • CyhoeddwydIn the Temple Precincts: George Herbert and Seventeenth-Century Community-Making.
    Wilcox, H. E., Sell, R. D. (Golygydd) & Johnson, A. W. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2009, Writing and Religion in England: 1558-1689.. 2009 gol. Ashgate, t. 253-272
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  • CyhoeddwydLyric Poetry
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H. & Knoppers, L. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2009, The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. 2009 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 208-221
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2008

  • Cyhoeddwyd"She on the hills": traces of Roman Catholicism in seventeenth-century English protestant poetry.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Van Dijkhuizen, J. F. (Golygydd) & Todd, R. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2008, The Reformation Unsettled: British Literature and the Question of Religious Identity: 1560-1660. 2008 gol. Brepols Publishers, t. 9-33
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  • Cyhoeddwyd'Prophesying in Part': the Prophetic Voice in Unexpected Genres.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Cottegnies, L. (Golygydd) & Gheeraert-Graffeuille, C. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2008, Les voix de Dieu: littérature et prophétie en Angleterre et en France à l'âge baroque. 2008 gol. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, t. 199-212
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  • CyhoeddwydDrums and Roses? The Tragicomedy of War in All’s Well That Ends Well.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., King, R. (Golygydd) & Franssen, P. J. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2008, Shakespeare and War. 2008 gol. Palgrave Macmillan, t. 84-95
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • CyhoeddwydGendered Authority: Cleopatra in English and Spanish Golden Age Drama.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Walthaus, R. (Golygydd) & Corporaal, M. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2008, Heroines of the Golden Stage: Women and Drama in Spain and England 1500-1700.. 2008 gol. Kassel, t. 32-49
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  • CyhoeddwydNeedy Nothing Trimmed in Jollity.
    Wilcox, H. E., Dutcher, J. M. (Golygydd) & Lake Prescott, A. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2008, Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney. 2008 gol. University of Delaware Press, t. 313-329
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2007

2006

2002

  • CyhoeddwydLiterature and the Household in the Civil War and Commonwealth Era.
    Wilcox, H. E., Wilcox, H., Loewenstein, D. (Golygydd) & Mueller, J. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2002, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. 2002 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 737-762
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