The politics of female alliance in early modern England

The politics of female alliance in early modern England / edited and with an introduction by Christina Luckyj and Niamh J. O'Leary.

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 alliance...

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Other Authors: Luckyj, Christina, 1956- (Editor), O'Leary, Niamh J., 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Female friendship in literature.
Women and literature > England.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
English literature > Early modern
Female friendship in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The politics of women's "domestic" alliances. Distaff power: plebeian female alliances in early modern England / Bernard Capp
  • Between women: slanderous speech and neighborly bonds in Henry Porter's The two angry women of Abington / Ronda Arab
  • The political role of the gossip in Swetnam the woman-hater, arraigned by women / Megan Inbody
  • Virtual and actual female alliance in The maid's tragedy and The tamer tamed / Niamh J. O'Leary
  • Failed alliances and miserable marriages in Katherine Philips's letters / Elizabeth Hodgson
  • Women's alliances and the politics of the court. Performing patronage, crafting alliances: ladies' lotteries in English pageantry / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
  • Tyrants, love, and ladies' eyes: the politics of female-boy alliance on the Jacobean stage Roberta Barker
  • Her advocate to the loudest: Arbella Stuart and female courtly alliance in The winter's tale / Alicia Tomasian
  • Not sparing kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the religious politics of female alliance / Christina Luckyj
  • The politics of female kinship. Shakespeare revises Juliet, the nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet / Steven Urkowitz
  • Crossing generations: female alliances and dynastic power in Anne Clifford's great books of record / Jessica l. Malay
  • Exilic inspiration and the captive life: the literary/political alliances of the Cavendish sisters / Jennifer Higginbotham
  • Afterword / Susan Frye and Karen Robertson.

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