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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luckyj, Christina, 1956- editor, writer of introduction.

O'Leary, Niamh J., 1980- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Summary:

2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women In the last thirty yearsscholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women's alliances in early modern Europe. 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 lawhelp shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women's political alliances. Grouped into three sections-domestic, court, and kinship alliances-these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Offering new perspectives on female authors such as the Cavendish sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips, as well as on male-authored texts such as Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Swetnam the Woman-Hater, and The Maid's Tragedy, the essays bring both familiar and unfamiliar texts into conversation about the political potential of female alliances. Some contributors are skeptical about allied women's political power, while others suggest that such female communities had considerable potential to contain, maintain, or subvert political hierarchies. A wide variety of approaches to the political are represented in the volumeand thescope will make it appealing to a broad audience.

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.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496202802

1496202805

9781496202789

1496202783

OCLC:

1001968487