Susan Frye / Karen Robertson (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens

Women's Alliances in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Robertson, Karen; Frye, Susan

Beschreibung

This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities, households, and court -- and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections.These clear and Lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of racer in the early modern period.

Autor

Karen Robertson is Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Vassar College. She co-edited a previous collection of feminist essays, Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama (1991), as well as an edition of an early revenge play, John Pikering's Horestes (1996). Susan Frye is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation (OUP, 1993) and is now working on a new book, Women's Work and Women's Writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780195117356
• ISBN-10: 0195117352
• Artikelnr.: 22471652