Goddesses and Queens

The iconography of Elizabeth I
Herausgeber: Connolly, Annaliese; Hopkins, Lisa

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Produktbeschreibung

Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090110
• ISBN-10: 0719090113
• Artikelnr.: 37596596

Autorenporträt

Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam University. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations/Acknowledgements/Notes on contributors Introduction I
A world in crisis: Elizabeth's iconography and religious tensions 1
Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of power - Carol
Blessing 2 Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry
VI - Ben Spiller 3 'Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine': Queen Elizabeth I
as Lady Alchymia - Jayne Elisabeth Archer II Virginia and the Virgin:
Elizabeth and the New World 4 Elizabeth I: size matters - Deanne Williams 5
'And in their midst a sun': Petrarch's Triumphs and the Elizabethan icon -
Heather Campbell 6 'Nature without labor': Virgin Queen and virgin land in
Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre
of Guiana - Helen J. Burgess III The Old World and the New: classical
precedents 7 The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and Titania - Lisa
Hopkins 8 Evaluating virginity: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the
iconography of marriage - Annaliese Connolly 9 Cynthia waning: Cynthia's
Revels imagines the death of the queen - Matthew Steggle IV Coda:
Elizabeth's afterlife 10 'Turn thy Tombe into a Throne': Elizabeth I's
death rehearsal - Scott L. Newstok Index