Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England / / Maureen Quilligan.

Maureen Quilligan explores the remarkable presence in the Renaissance of what she calls "incest schemes" in the books of a small number of influential women who claimed an active female authority by writing in high canonical genres and who, even more transgressively for the time, sought pu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Halting the Traffic in Women: Theoretical Foundations
  • 2. Elizabeth I (with a Note on Marguerite de Navarre)
  • 3. Sir Philip Sidney's Queen
  • 4. Mary Sidney Herbert (with a Note on Elizabeth Cary)
  • 5. Spenser's Britomart
  • 6. Mary Wroth
  • 7. Shakespeare's Cordelia
  • Epilogue: Milton's Eve
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments