Queens matter in early modern studies. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anna Riehl Bertolet.
• Editors: Bertolet, Anna Riehl, 1970-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole LevinI. Prelude: Studying Queens2. Queenship and Power: The Heart and Stomach of a Book SeriesII. Queens and Matters of Gender3. Did Elizabeth's Gender Really Matter?4. A Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions5. "We are such stuff": Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010)III. Queens and Marriage6. Elizabeth I and the Marriage Crisis, John Lyly's Campaspe, and the Politics of Court Drama7. Tudor Consorts: The Politics of Royal Matchmaking, 1483–15438. The Queen's Deathbed Wish in Early Modern Fairy Tales: Securing the DynastyIV. Queens and Religion9. Spenser's Dragon Fight and the English Queen: The Struggle over the Elizabethan Settlement10. Anne Boleyn's Legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the Iconography of Protestant Queenship11. "A Network of Honor and Obligation": Elizabeth as Godmother.- V. Queens, National Identity, and Diplomacy12. Lesbianism in Early Modern Vernacular Romance: The Question of Historicity13. Doppelgänger Queens: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart14. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Invoking Russia in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost15. Queen Elizabeth I and Elizabethan Court in the French Ambassador's EyesVI. Inspired by the Queen: Queens in Literature16. Queen of Love—Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Wroth17. Dressing Queens (and Some Others): Signifying through Clothing in Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania18. Conjuring Three Queens and an Empress: The Philosophy of Enchantment in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 321.6; Queens; Kings and rulers; History, Modern -- 16th century; History, Modern -- 17th century; History, Modern -- 18th century; Queens in literature; Kings and rulers in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319640488
• Related ISBNs: 9783319640471
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