The politics of female alliance in early modern England /
The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law help shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women's political alliance...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : 2017 |
| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The politics of women's "domestic" alliances. Distaff power: plebeian female alliances in early modern England / Bernard Capp
- Between women: slanderous speech and neighborly bonds in Henry Porter's The two angry women of Abington / Ronda Arab
- The political role of the gossip in Swetnam the woman-hater, arraigned by women / Megan Inbody
- Virtual and actual female alliance in The maid's tragedy and The tamer tamed / Niamh J. O'Leary
- Failed alliances and miserable marriages in Katherine Philips's letters / Elizabeth Hodgson
- Women's alliances and the politics of the court. Performing patronage, crafting alliances: ladies' lotteries in English pageantry / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
- Tyrants, love, and ladies' eyes: the politics of female-boy alliance on the Jacobean stage Roberta Barker
- Her advocate to the loudest: Arbella Stuart and female courtly alliance in The winter's tale / Alicia Tomasian
- Not sparing kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the religious politics of female alliance / Christina Luckyj
- The politics of female kinship. Shakespeare revises Juliet, the nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet / Steven Urkowitz
- Crossing generations: female alliances and dynastic power in Anne Clifford's great books of record / Jessica l. Malay
- Exilic inspiration and the captive life: the literary/political alliances of the Cavendish sisters / Jennifer Higginbotham
- Afterword / Susan Frye and Karen Robertson