| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser.
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Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Confuting Those Blind Geographers -- 2. 'T'illumine the now obscurèd Palestine' -- 3. 'Willing to Pay Their Maidenheads' -- 4. 'The Fort of her Chastity' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. 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. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists? men and women? conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Queens in literature.
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Queens in literature. |
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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English drama. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Geography and literature.
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Geography and literature. |
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Cartography -- Great Britain -- History.
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Cartography. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pilhuj, Katja. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
9789048544226 (electronic book) |
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904854422X (electronic book) |
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9789463722018 |
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9463722017 |
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