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The Findern Manuscript Cambridge University Library Ms Ff16
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Book Synopsis Feminist Criticism by : Susan Sellers
Download or read book Feminist Criticism written by Susan Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays illustrating the current preoccupations and practices of 13 British feminists. Each focusses on a literary text, either presenting a feminist interpretation or explaining the author's feminism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ms. Ff. 1.6) by :
Download or read book The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ms. Ff. 1.6) written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Arts & Humanities Citation Index by :
Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Courtly Maker by : Raymond Southall
Download or read book The Courtly Maker written by Raymond Southall and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey by : William A. Sessions
Download or read book Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey written by William A. Sessions and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey, the author assesses his role in Tudor society and examines his image of the Renaissance courtier, his representation of nobility and his poetic work and creation of poetic forms.
Book Synopsis The Imprint of Gender by : Wendy Wall
Download or read book The Imprint of Gender written by Wendy Wall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be published at the end of the sixteenth century? While in polite circles gentlemen exchanged handwritten letters, published authors risked association with the low-born masses. Examining a wide range of published material including sonnets, pageants, prefaces, narrative poems, and title pages, Wendy Wall considers how the idea of authorship was shaped by the complex social controversies generated by publication during the English Renaissance.
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Leah S. Marcus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well. "This collection shines a light onto the character and experience of one of the most interesting of monarchs. . . . We are likely never to get a closer or clearer look at her. An intriguing and intense portrait of a woman who figures so importantly in the birth of our modern world."—Publishers Weekly "An admirable scholarly edition of the queen's literary output. . . . This anthology will excite scholars of Elizabethan history, but there is something here for all of us who revel in the English language."—John Cooper, Washington Times "Substantial, scholarly, but accessible. . . . An invaluable work of reference."—Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books "In a single extraordinary volume . . . Marcus and her coeditors have collected the Virgin Queen's letters, speeches, poems and prayers. . . . An impressive, heavily footnoted volume."—Library Journal "This excellent anthology of [Elizabeth's] speeches, poems, prayers and letters demonstrates her virtuosity and afford the reader a penetrating insight into her 'wiles and understandings.'"—Anne Somerset, New Statesman "Here then is the only trustworthy collection of the various genres of Elizabeth's writings. . . . A fine edition which will be indispensable to all those interested in Elizabeth I and her reign."—Susan Doran, History "In the torrent of words about her, the queen's own words have been hard to find. . . . [This] volume is a major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before. . . . A veritable feast of material in different genres."—David Norbrook, The New Republic
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn by : Retha M. Warnicke
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn written by Retha M. Warnicke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retha Warnicke's fascinating and controversial reinterpretation focuses on the sexual intrigues and family politics pervading the court, offering a new explanation of Anne's fall.
Book Synopsis Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England by : James Daybell
Download or read book Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England written by James Daybell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities, document 'higher' forms of female literacy, and highlight women's mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships, and as media for personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship networks; they were active as suitors for crown favour, and operated as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally on the wider political stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.
Book Synopsis The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) by : Nancy Armstrong
Download or read book The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) written by Nancy Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable. This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. They did so without appearing to breed political controversy because it seemed to concern only the female. But writing for and about women in fact became a powerful instrument of hegemony as it introduced a whole new vocabulary for social relations, induced certain forms of economic behaviour as desirable in men and women respectively, and insured the reproduction of the nuclear family. It is argued, therefore, that the literature of conduct not only recorded but also assisted the production of our contemporary gender-based culture.
Book Synopsis The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey by : James Gairdner
Download or read book The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey written by James Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Musical Sources and Style by : Jan LaRue
Download or read book Studies in Musical Sources and Style written by Jan LaRue and published by Madison, Wis. : A-R Editions. This book was released on 1990 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Susan Frye and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on three representational crises spaced fifteen years apart: the London coronation of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queene in 1590. In ways which varied with social class and historical circumstance, the London merchants, the members of the Protestant faction, courtly artists, and artful courtiers all sought to stabilize their own gendered identities by constructing the queen within the "natural" definitions of the feminine as passive and weak. Elizabeth fought back, acting as a discursive agent by crossing, and thus disrupting, these definitions. She and those closely identified with her interests evolved a number of strategies through which to express her political control in terms of the ownership of her body, including her elaborate iconography and a mythic biography upon which most accounts of Elizabeth's life have been based. The more authoritative her image became, the more vigorously it was contested in a process which this study examines and consciously perpetuates.
Book Synopsis The Arte of English Poesie, [June?] 1589 by : George Puttenham
Download or read book The Arte of English Poesie, [June?] 1589 written by George Puttenham and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew by : John MacLean
Download or read book The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew written by John MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curial written by Alain Chartier and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) by : John the Blind Audelay
Download or read book Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) written by John the Blind Audelay and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets.