Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse : : Tradition, Translation, and Transcription / / Rebecca Quoss-Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Quoss-Moore, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)

Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understanding this system as an extensive network of production and reception in which women took on many roles allows for new readings of Henrician verse that emphasize the interpretive range available to contemporary reading and writing communities. This restoration demasculinizes our approach to Henrician verse not only through a more equitable consideration of gender’s functions in that social world, but also in de-emphasizing individualized self-fashioning or authorial intent in favor of an engagement with communal production and shared sociopolitical engagement. The creation in this system is not of a code, but of systems for coding and recognizing position-taking. These communal systems offer a site for the intersection of reader and writer, of transcriber and composer, and of King and courtier in a space that questions, creates, and troubles power in the Henrician court.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Early Verse Position-Taking in the Henrician Court -- 2. Traditions of Resistance and Verse Position-Taking -- 3. Translation and the Position-Taking Verse Tradition -- 4. Men’s and Women’s Approaches to Translation and Authority in the Late Henrician Court -- 5. Transcription as Translation: Writing the Language of Manuscript Poetry -- 6. Resistance and Unity in the Douglas- Howard Exchange -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index