Writing Women in Jacobean England

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Pub. Date: 1994-12-01
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women, Writing, and Resistance in Jacobean Englandp. 1
The Royal Opposition
Enacting Opposition: Queen Anne and the Subversions of Masquingp. 15
Scripting a Heroine's Role: Princess Elizabeth and the Politics of Romancep. 45
Writing Resistance in Letters: Arbella Stuart and the Rhetoric of Disguise and Defiancep. 67
Re-Writing Patriarchy
Exercising Power: The Countess of Bedford as Courtier, Patron, and Coterie Poetp. 95
Claiming Patrimony and Constructing a Self: Anne Clifford and Her Diaryp. 125
Defending Women's Essential Equality: Rachel Speght's Polemics and Poemsp. 153
Literary Re-Visions
Resisting Tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy and Historyp. 179
Imagining Female Community: Aemilia Lanyer's Poemsp. 213
Revising Genres and Claiming the Woman's Part: Mary Wroth's Oeuvrep. 243
Afterword: The Politics of Jacobean Women's Writingp. 309
Appendix A: Elizabeth, Lady Falkland, and the Authorship of Edward IIp. 317
Appendix B: Presentation Copies of Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorump. 321
Notesp. 323
Indexp. 413
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