Screen LibraryFamily Politics in Early Modern Literature /
This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the persp...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Early Modern Literature in History
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51144-7 |
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This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis birth and death, maturation, marriage moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a re |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 270 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781137511447 |
| Index Number: | PN715 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction; Hannah Crawforth and Sarah Lewis -- PART I: UNION -- 2. Margaret Cavendish, Wife; Julie Crawford -- 3. Reading Overbury s Wife: Politics and Marriage in 1616; Christina Luckyj -- 4. Representations of the Family in Early Caroline Drama: or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Henrietta Maria?; Tom MacFaul -- 5. Animal Families; Helen Smith -- PART II: SUCCESSION -- 6. Good agreement betwixt the wombe and frute : the Politics of Maternal Power in the Letters of Lady Anne Bacon; Katy Mair -- 7. Allegiance and Alliance: Maternal Genealogies in the Works of Mary Wroth; Naomi Miller |