Connolly / Unknown / Hopkins Goddesses and Queens

The iconography of Elizabeth I
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2981-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Connolly, Annaliese

Hopkins, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
A world in crisis: Elizabeth’s iconography and religious tensions
1. Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of power
Carol Blessing
2. Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI
Ben Spiller
3. ‘Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine’: Queen Elizabeth I as Lady Alchymia
Jayne Archer
Virginia and the Virgin: Elizabeth and the new world
4. Elizabeth I: size matters
Deanne Williams
5. ‘And In Their Midst a Sun’: Petrarch’s triumphs and the Elizabethan icon
Heather Campbell
6. ‘Nature Without Labor’: Virgin Queen and virgin land in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
Helen J. Burgess
The old world and the new: classical precedents
7. The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and Titania
Lisa Hopkins
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s retrospective on Elizabeth I and the iconography of marriage
Annaliese Connolly
9. Cynthia waning: Cynthia’s Revels imagines the death of the Queen
Matthew Steggle
Coda: Elizabeth’s afterlife
10. ‘Turn thy Tombe into a Throne’: Elizabeth I’s death rehearsal
Scott L. Newstok

Über Autor(innen)

Connolly Annaliese:
Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Sheffield Hallam UniversityHopkins Lisa:
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam UniversityAnnaliese Connolly is temporary lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and is currently studying for her Doctoral thesis. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University