Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England : : Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship / / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Henry VIII and the Political Uses of Incest Theory
- 2. Incest and Tudor Literary Politics
- 3. James I and the Fabrication of Kinship
- 4. The End of Kingship?
- 5. Conclusions: The Politics of Incest Theory
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index