Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage

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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 formid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pilhuj, Katja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Colección:Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser.
Temas:
1600-1699
Queens in literature.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Geography and literature.
Cartography > Great Britain > History.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Géographie et littérature.
Cartographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800.
Gender studies, gender groups.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Cartography.
English drama.
Great Britain.
Geography, Renaissance drama, women, representation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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