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Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England : Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship
In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Telling Stories About Incest; The Problem; Reader's Program; 1. Henry VIII and the Political Uses of Incest Theory; In the Bedrooms of the Great; Basic Theory of Incest; Doctrine of the Henrician Divorce (Part I); Doctrine of the Henrician Divorce (Part II); Anthropology as Politics; 2. Incest and Tudor Literary Politics; Henry's Legacy; Elizabeth and the Issue of Title; Three Tudor Plays; ""Ten Times Our Mother"": Incest and Feminine Authority in Hamlet; The Cult of Chastity; 3. James I and the Fabrication of Kinship; The Succession Revisited.
- Revenge Tragedy and the Jacobean Social ClimberA Queen and No Queen: Female Inheritance in Beaumont and Fletcher; Commerce and Incest in Women Beware Women; The Conundrum of Kin(g)ship; 4. The End of Kingship?; Incest and the English Revolution; Charles I: The Governor as Family Man; John Ford's Tremulous Private Heaven; Cavalier Drama and the Royal Dilemma; Milton and the Powers That Be; 5. Conclusions: The Politics of Incest Theory; Westermarck, Morgan, Nature; Freud, Feminism, Culture; ""The Libertie of a Subject"": Incest and Child Abuse; The Demographics of Incest in Renaissance England.
- The Properties of KingshipAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.