Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

Bertolet, Anna Riehl

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

397

Mole

Inglês

9783319877082

15 a 20 dias

547

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1. Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole Levin.- I. Prelude: Studying Queens.- 2. Queenship and Power: The Heart and Stomach of a Book Series.- II. Queens and Matters of Gender.- 3. Did Elizabeth's Gender Really Matter?.- 4. A Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions.- 5. "We are such stuff": Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010).- III. Queens and Marriage.- 6. Elizabeth I and the Marriage Crisis, John Lyly's Campaspe, and the Politics of Court Drama.- 7. Tudor Consorts: The Politics of Royal Matchmaking, 1483-1543.- 8. The Queen's Deathbed Wish in Early Modern Fairy Tales: Securing the Dynasty.- IV. Queens and Religion.- 9. Spenser's Dragon Fight and the English Queen: The Struggle over the Elizabethan Settlement.- 10. Anne Boleyn's Legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the Iconography of Protestant Queenship.- 11. "A Network of Honor and Obligation": Elizabeth as Godmother.-V. Queens, National Identity, and Diplomacy.- 12. Lesbianism in Early Modern Vernacular Romance: The Question of Historicity.- 13. Doppelgaenger Queens: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart.- 14. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Invoking Russia in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.- 15. Queen Elizabeth I and Elizabethan Court in the French Ambassador's Eyes.- VI. Inspired by the Queen: Queens in Literature.- 16. Queen of Love-Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Wroth.- 17. Dressing Queens (and Some Others): Signifying through Clothing in Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania.- 18. Conjuring Three Queens and an Empress: The Philosophy of Enchantment in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World.
Carole Levin;Early Modern period;Female rulers;Queenship and Power;Gender studies;Queenship;Women in history;Elizabethan history;representations of queens in literature;John Lyly's Campaspe;Tudor consorts;queens in early modern fairytales;English Protestant queenship;iconography of queenship;lesbianism in early modern literature;French diplomacy in Elizabethan England;Blazing World Margaret Cavendish;queenship and material culture