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The politics of female alliance in early modern England / edited and with an introduction by Christina Luckyj and Niamh J. O'Leary.
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- Book
- Series:
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women in literature.
- Female friendship in literature.
- Women and literature--England.
- Women and literature.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 22, 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Politics of female alliance in early modern England
- ISBN:
- 9781496202789
- 1496202783
- Publisher Number:
- 40027742382
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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