Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Luckyj, Christina, 1956-
• O'Leary, Niamh J., 1980-

Description

x, 272 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Women and gender in the early modern world

Uniform Title

Women and gender in the early modern world.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Women in literature
• Female friendship in literature
• Women and literature > England
• English literature > Early modern
• Women and literature
• England

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-204

ISBN

• 9781496201997
• 149620199X

LCCN

2017029411

OCLC

983423925

Title

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

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Women and gender in the early modern world

Women and gender in the early modern world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1700

Added Author

Luckyj, Christina, 1956- editor.

O'Leary, Niamh J., 1980- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Politics of female alliance in early modern England Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017 9781496202789

Research Call Number

JFE 18-204