Family politics in early modern literature / Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980- editor.

Lewis, Sarah, editor.

King's College London.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

Family politics in early modern England (2013 : King's College London)

Series:

Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Early modern literature in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families in literature.

Families in literature--Congresses.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

"This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis - birth and death, maturation, marriage - moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family 'politics' become most apparent." --Amazon.com.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Sarah Lewis

pt. I Union

2. Margaret Cavendish, Wife / Julie Crawford

3. Reading Overbury's Wife: Politics and Marriage in 1616 / Christina Luckyj

4. Representations of the Family in Early Caroline Drama: Or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Henrietta Maria? / Tom MacFaul

5. Animal Families / Helen Smith

pt. II Succession

6. `Good Agreement Betwixt the Wombe and Frute': The Politics of Maternal Power in the Letters of Lady Anne Bacon / Katy Mair

7. Allegiance and Alliance: Maternal Genealogies in the Works of Mary Wroth / Naomi J. Miller

8. Mini-Majesty: Dynasty and Succession in the Portraiture of Henry VIII and Edward VI / Naomi Yavneh Klos

9. Beyond the Palace: The Transmission of Political Power in the Clifford Circle / Jessica L. Malay

pt. III Rebellion

10. Bare-Forked Animals: King Lear and the Problems of Patriarchalism / Su Fang Ng

11. The State, Childhood and Religious Dissent / Lucy Underwood

12. Father Figures: Paternal Politics in the Conversion Narratives of Thomas Gage and James Wadsworth / Abigail Shinn

13. Family Politics and Age in Early Modern England / Lucy Munro.

Notes:

"This collection began to take shape in November 2013 when we hosted a two-day symposium, 'Family politics in early modern England', at King's College London."--Page v.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Family politics in early modern literature.

ISBN:

9781137511430

1137511435

OCLC:

975281991

Publisher Number:

99973904591