Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvChristina Luckyj,Niamh J. O'Leary,Niamh J O'Leary

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2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenIn the last thirty years scholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law help shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women’s political alliances.Grouped into three sections-domestic, court, and kinship alliances-these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Offering new perspectives on female authors such as the Cavendish sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips, as well as on male-authored texts such as Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Swetnam the Woman-Hater, and The Maid’s Tragedy, the essays bring both familiar and unfamiliar texts into conversation about the political potential of female alliances.Some contributors are skeptical about allied women’s political power, while others suggest that such female communities had considerable potential to contain, maintain, or subvert political hierarchies. A wide variety of approaches to the political are represented in the volume and the scope will make it appealing to a broad audience.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWomen and Gender in the Early Modern World
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9781496201997

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AcknowledgmentsEditors’ IntroductionPart 1. The Politics of Women’s “Domestic” Alliances1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern EnglandBernard Capp2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’s The Two Angry Women of AbingtonRonda Arab3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women Megan Inbody4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’s Tragedy and The Tamer TamedNiamh J. O’Leary5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’s Letters Elizabeth HodgsonPart 2. Women’s Alliances and the Politics of the Court6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English PageantryElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’ Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean StageRoberta Barker8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’s TaleAlicia Tomasian9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance Christina LuckyjPart 3. The Politics of Female Kinship10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and JulietSteven Urkowitz11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record Jessica L. Malay12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary / Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters Jennifer Higginbotham13. AfterwordSusan Frye and Karen RobertsonContributors Index

“An excellent exploration of the ways that politics-writ large-resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.”-Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain