Women and geography on the early modern English stage / Katja Pilhuj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilhuj, Katja, author.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography in literature--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Cartography in literature.

Women in literature--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Women in literature.

Theater--England--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 14, 2022)

ISBN:

1-003-70954-0

90-485-4422-X

9781003709541

OCLC:

1126219228