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  1. Women and geography on the early modern English stage
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048544226; 904854422X
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    DDC Categories: 820
    Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten)
  2. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

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    ISBN: 9789048544226; 904854422X
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    Edition: 1. Auflage, digitale Originalausgabe
    Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT019000; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT013000: LIT013000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; (BISAC Subject Heading)SOC032000: SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; (BIC subject category)DSB: Literary studies: general
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 296 Seiten
  3. Women and geography on the early modern English stage
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn
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    ISBN: 9789048544226; 904854422X
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    9789048544226
    DDC Categories: 820
    Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten)
  4. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Frontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Figures --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Confuting Those Blind Geographers --2. 'T'illumine the now obscurèd Palestine' --3. 'Willing to Pay Their Maidenheads' --4. 'The Fort of her Chastity'... more

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    Frontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Figures --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Confuting Those Blind Geographers --2. 'T'illumine the now obscurèd Palestine' --3. 'Willing to Pay Their Maidenheads' --4. 'The Fort of her Chastity' --Conclusion --Bibliography --Index In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world- writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists? men and women? conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048544226; 904854422X
    Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser
    Subjects: English drama; Geography and literature; Cartography; Queens in literature; English drama; Geography and literature; Queens in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Renaissance; Cartography; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index