John Watkins

Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England

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Produktbeschreibung

Watkins traces the development of Elizabeth I's iconic significance in the political and popular imagination of the seventeenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780521815734
• ISBN-10: 0521815738
• Artikelnr.: 29337477

Autorenporträt

John Watkins is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He is the author of The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. James I and the fictions of Elizabeth's motherhood
2. The Queen of royal citizens: Elizabeth in Thomas Heywood's historical imagination
3. Arcana Reginae: Tacitean Narrations of the Elizabethan past
4. Recollections of Elizabeth during the civil wars and interregnum
5. Restoration Elizabeth
6. 'Under the name of a Vergin or Maiden Queen'
7. Gloriana's Secrets: the restoration invention of Elizabeth's private life
8. After the revolution: Gloriana in late Stuart England
Conclusion.