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Authorizing early modern European women : from biography to biofiction /
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. James Fitzmaurice, Naomi J. Miller, and Sara Jayne Steen: "Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age" Section I: Fictionalizing Biography 2. Bárbara Mujica: "<cite>Sister Teresa</cite>: Fictionalizing a Saint" [Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582); practitioner: nun; author] 3. Catherine Padmore: "Portrait of an Unknown Woman: Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix" [Levina Teerlinc (1510/20-1576); visual artist] 4. Frima Fox Hofrichter: "An Interview with Dominic Smith, Author of <cite>The Last Painting of Sara de Vos</cite>: Capturing the Seventeenth Century" [Judith Leyster (1609-1660) and Sara van Baalbergen (fl. 1631-1634); visual artists] 5. Susanne Woods: "Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction" [Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); author] 6. Marina Leslie: "Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations, and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish" [Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673); author] Section II: Materializing Authorship 7. Susan Frye: "Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography" [Elizabeth Talbot (1527?-1608); creator of textiles] 8. Sarah Gristwood: "The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart" [Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) and Elizabeth I (1533-1603); practitioners: queens; embroiderer; authors] 9. Marion Wynne-Davies: "'Very Secret Kept': Facts and Re-Creation in Margaret Hannay's Biographies of Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Wroth" [Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621) and Mary Wroth (1586-1652); authors] 10. Naomi J. Miller: "Imagining Shakespeare's Sisters: Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth" [Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621) and Mary Wroth (1586-1652); authors] 11. Linda Phyllis Austern: "Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media"[Anne Boleyn (c. 1500-1536); musician] Section III: Performing Gender 12. Sheila T. Cavanagh: "Reclaiming Her Time: Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century" [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656); visual artist] 13. Hailey Bachrach: "Beyond the Record: <cite>Emilia</cite> and Feminist Historical Recovery" [Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); author] 14. James Fitzmaurice: "Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors" [Aphra Behn (1640-1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673); authors] 15. Emilie L. Bergmann: "Jesusa Rodríguez's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Reflections on an Opaque Body"[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695); practitioner: nun; author] Section IV: Authoring Identity 16. Margaret F. Rosenthal: "From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater: Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture" [Veronica Franco (1546-1591); author] 17. Julia Dabbs: "The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola" [Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625); visual artist] 18. Stephanie Russo: "'I Am Artemisia': Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's <cite>Blood Water Paint</cite>" [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656); visual artist] 19. Sara Jayne Steen: "The Lady Arbella Stuart, a 'Rare <cite>Phoenix</cite>': Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction" [Arbella Stuart (1575-1615); letter writer] 20. Sara Read: "<cite>The Gossips' Choice</cite>: Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources" [Jane Sharp (active 1671) and Sarah Stone (active 1701-1737); practitioners: midwives] 21. Michael Lackey: Afterword Index