Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried QueenRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 216 páginas Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure? Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with political and religious power was repeatedly idealized, it was also perceived as extremely disturbing. The figure of the unmarried queen implicitly challenged the masculine focus of Renaissance discourses of love, philosophy and absolutist political ideology. In her exploration of the potent combination of themes of sexuality and politics with classical myth and Neoplatonic mysticism, Berry offers a radical reassessment of the status of `woman' as a bearer of meaning within Renaissance literature and culture. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Renaissance speculations through the feminine and their genealogy | 9 |
discourses of love and political power in the French Renaissance | 37 |
the courtly cult of Elizabeth I and its subjects | 59 |
contests for authority in Elizabethan aristocratic pastimes | 89 |
Lylys alternative view of Elizabethan courtiership | 115 |
representations of the unmarried queen by Chapman Shakespeare Ralegh and Spenser | 137 |
Notes | 167 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen Philippa Berry Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen Philippa Berry Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen Philippa Berry Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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