Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities.
Katja Pilhuj is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English, Fine Arts, and Communication at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter One Confuting Those Blind Geographers: Christopher Marlowe's Spectacle of Maps and the Female Body Chapter Two 'T'illumine the now obscurèd Palestine': Elizabeth Cary and the Mapping of Early Modern Marriage and Colonialism Chapter Three 'Willing to pay their maidenheads': Thomas Heywood and the Cartography of Bodily Commerce Chapter Four 'The Fort of her Chastity': Cavendish's Mapmakers of Virtue Conclusion Women as World-Writers, Bibliography, Index.