Philippa Berry

Of Chastity and Power

Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure? Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with political and religious power was repeatedly idealized, it was also perceived as extremely disturbing. The figure of the unmarried queen implicitly challenged the masculine focus of Renaissance discourses of love, philosophy and absolutist political ideology. In her exploration of the potent combination of themes of sexuality and politics with classical myth and Neoplatonic mysticism, Berry offers a radical reassessment of the status of `woman' as a bearer of meaning within Renaissance literature and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415056724
• ISBN-10: 0415056721
• Artikelnr.: 21248097

Autorenporträt

Philippa Berry

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Mirrors of masculinity: Renaissance speculations through the
feminine and their genealogy 2 A curious conjunction: discourses of love
and political power in the French Renaissance 3 Three-personed queen: the
courtly cult of Elizabeth I and its Subjects 4 Carnival at court: contests
for authority in Elizabethan aristocratic pastimes 5 Chastity and the power
of interior spaces: Lyly's alternative view of Elizabethan courtiership 6
Rewriting chastity: representations of the unmarried queen by Chapman,
Shakespeare, Ralegh, and Spenser