Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern - Creating Their Own Meanings

Informationen zum Autor Akiko Kusunoki is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan. She held the role of President of the Shakespeare Society of Japan, and is on the board of trustees of the International Shakespeare Association. She has published, both in Japanese and English, works on Shakespeare and women writers in early modern England. Klappentext This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth. Zusammenfassung This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England! placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England 2. Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: and 3. Lady Mary Wroth and Ideologies of Marriage in Late Jacobean England 4. Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England 5. Women and Publishing Their Works Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Akiko Kusunoki
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781403935748
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-3574-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies; Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Gender Studies, Literature, Sociology, Poetry, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Poetry and Poetics, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern