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Author:   Christina Luckyj ,  Niamh J. O'Leary
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496201997

ISBN 10:   149620199
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Editors’ Introduction Part 1. The Politics of Women’s “Domestic” Alliances 1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern England Bernard Capp 2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’s The Two Angry Women of Abington Ronda Arab 3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women  Megan Inbody 4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’s Tragedy and The Tamer Tamed Niamh J. O’Leary 5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’s Letters  Elizabeth Hodgson Part 2. Women’s Alliances and the Politics of the Court 6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich 7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’ Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean Stage Roberta Barker 8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’s Tale Alicia Tomasian 9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance  Christina Luckyj Part 3. The Politics of Female Kinship 10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet Steven Urkowitz 11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record  Jessica L. Malay 12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary / Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters  Jennifer Higginbotham 13. Afterword Susan Frye and Karen Robertson Contributors  Index

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An excellent exploration of the ways that politics-writ large-resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women's alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars. -Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain -- Amanda Herbert

"""This volume is more than a collection; it is itself a conversation about where early modern feminist scholarship might ""go"" next. These chapters perform an extraordinary service, each in its own special expertise, embracing dramatic and poetic performance, the sociology of both collective labor and disruptive competition.""—Naomi Conn Liebler, Early Modern Women: An Introductory Journal “An excellent exploration of the ways that politics—writ large—resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.”—Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain"

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Christina Luckyj is a professor of English, gender, and women’s studies at Dalhousie University. She is the author of “A Moving Rhetoricke”: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England and The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide. Niamh J. O’Leary is an associate professor of English at Xavier University.  

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