The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania

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Publisher : Iter Press
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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Book Synopsis The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania by : Lady Mary Wroth

Download or read book The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania written by Lady Mary Wroth and published by Iter Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sidney Family Romance

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814324363
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Sidney Family Romance by : Gary Fredric Waller

Download or read book The Sidney Family Romance written by Gary Fredric Waller and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Herbert (1580-1630), third earl of Pembroke, and Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1653?) were first cousins, the nephew and niece of Sir Philip Sidney, whose family was one of remarkable literary and political importance. Herbert was a poet, a voluminous letter writer, and one of the Jacobean court's richest and most powerful courtiers and politicians. Wroth was arguably the most important woman writer of the period; she authored the first Petrarchan poetic sequence, the first prose romance, and one of the first plays in English by a woman. In addition to their connections as cousins and as writers, they were lovers and the parents of two illegitimate children." "The Sidney Family Romance is both a "cultural biography" and a symptomatic reading of the sexual and textual relationships of Herbert and Wroth. Waller's analysis of their letters and literary works relies on a variety of critical apparatuses - social history, current political and social theories of the Jacobean period, and most notably (feminist) psychoanalytic theory. In both his biographical information and interpretive comments, Waller focuses on subject construction and gender construction of the early modern period, to find that Herbert's poems proceed from his life at court to engage in the gender politics of Petrarchan poetry, while Wroth's work proceeds from her disempowered position to project a desire for an autonomy which would lead to mutuality between the sexes." "Waller tries to find ways of analyzing the "inner lives" of his subjects, in the absence of direct evidence, and with a paucity of documentation. He examines historical documents, including the writings of the two cousins, and recent historical research, along with contemporary studies of family interactions and gender construction and detailed case histories drawn from nearly a century of clinical and therapeutic studies. The author concludes with a discussion of the crisis of gender in the seventeenth century as a contemporary crisis as well." "Family history has long been central to Renaissance studies. The Sidney Family Romance proceeds far beyond any previous works in bringing to bear the very rich and complicated network of ideas, observations, and literary images in the works of Herbert and Wroth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107170656
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets by : Jane Kingsley-Smith

Download or read book The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Jane Kingsley-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134711875
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Book Synopsis Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama by : S. P. Cerasano

Download or read book Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama written by S. P. Cerasano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117996
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth by : Josephine A. Roberts

Download or read book The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth written by Josephine A. Roberts and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her time, including Ben Johnson, who praised her work for its profound understanding of the nature of romantic love. Lady Mary's sonnet cycle, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, was the first English sequence to be written from a women's perspective. The Countesse of Montgomery's Urania, her romance interspersed with poetry, was one of the first works of prose fiction to be composed by an Englishwoman. In this complete edition of Lady Mary Wroth's verse, Josephine Roberts has brought together and annotated all 192 of the surviving poems, many of which have never been published before. As the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Sidney and Lady Barbara Gamage, Lady Mary took great pride in the Sidney literary heritage. During the years of her marriage she assumed the roles of both poet and patron, an example set for her by her father and her more famous uncle, Sir Philip Sidney. She further followed the precedent of her uncle by choosing for her own work the artistic forms that he had favored -- the sonnet sequence, pastoral romance, and pastoral drama. As a young woman, Lady Mary belonged to Queen Anne's intimate circle, but in the years following her husband's death she suffered a precipitous decline in social status. She violated the social taboos of her age by becoming the mistress of her first cousin, William Herbert, earl of Pembroek, and bearing him two illegitimate children. Her artistic efforts aroused equal controversy when, after the publication of her prose romance, the Urania, several prominent noblemen attacked her for portraying their private lives under the guise of fiction. Despite these obstacles -- and the added burden of the unpaid debts that were the legacy of her disappointing marriage -- Lady Mary maintained an independent spirit and trusted in an ability to make her own decisions. In her prose works she lashed out at the hypocrisies of life at court; in her poetry she wrote of more personal concerns -- the treacherousness of emotion, the eternal elusiveness of love. Rising above well-worn Elizabethan conceits, the best of Lady Mary's poems reveal an ambivalence toward romance and a wise understanding of the vicissitudes of human emotion.

The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

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Publisher : Iter Press
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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Book Synopsis The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania by : Lady Mary Wroth

Download or read book The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania written by Lady Mary Wroth and published by Iter Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Wroth composed her prose romance "Urania" at the height of the Jacobean debates concerning the nature and status of women. Personal experiences, her own and those of her friends, had made Wroth very much aware of how little voice women had in determining htheirown destinies or even choosing their life partners.

Judith Man

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351924621
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Book Synopsis Judith Man by : Amelia A. Zurcher

Download or read book Judith Man written by Amelia A. Zurcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man's English translation of a 1623 French work by Nicolas Coeffeteau, Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis, which is itself an abridgement and translation of one of the most widely read fictional works of the seventeenth century, John Barclay's 1621 Latin romance Argenis. An extended political allegory of the rise to power of the French king Henri IV, Barclay's romance is peppered with numerous veiled anecdotes of politics at the English and other European courts and long disquisitions on statecraft and political ethics. It has been assumed that Barclay's work was strictly for a male audience, but Man's translation is evidence that women did in fact read Argenis, and might even suggest that allegorical romance offered women writers and readers an inroad into political discourse.

The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print

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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print by : Anne M. Haselkorn

Download or read book The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print written by Anne M. Haselkorn and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many distinctive features of the English Renaissance -- its lateness relative to the Renaissance in southern Europe, its adaptations to the wide swings of the Tudor and Stuart political, economic, cultural, and religious programs, its generally sober, religious tone, its governance for a stretch of approximately fifty years by a woman -- are widely recognized. But the consequences of these peculiarities for English women are less familiar. The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print attempts to investigate these consequences by examining cultural products of Tudor and Stuart England. Focusing chiefly on literary texts, the essays in this collection correlate writings by men that have traditionally been contained within the literary canon with writings by women that have traditionally been marginalized. The essays in this collection treat cultural documents in ways that necessarily raise and address questions about English Renaissance politics, religion, and economics. Many of the gendered assumptions of the English Renaissance are highlighted by this counterbalancing of representations of Renaissance women by contemporary men with writings (on related topics) by Renaissance women.

Sidney Newsletter & Journal

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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Sidney Newsletter & Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forms of Migration, Migrations of Forms: Cultural studies

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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book Forms of Migration, Migrations of Forms: Cultural studies written by Associazione italiana di anglistica. Congresso and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: