Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies
The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representation...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Queenship and Power
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Table of Contents:
- 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. Doppelgänger 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.
