Elizabeth I The Competition for Representation

Name: Elizabeth I The Competition for Representation
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ISBN: 9780195080230

ISBN-10: 0195080238

ISBN-13: 9780195080230

Edition: 1993

Authors: Susan Frye

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Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Frye's method is to provide historical accounts of three representational crises spaced fifteen years apart: the London coronation entry of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queene in 1590. In ways which varied with social class and historical circumstance, the London merchants, the members of the Protestant faction, courtly…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.50" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction: Who Represents Elizabeth?	p. 3
Engendered Economics: Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559)	p. 22
Queen Mary as Pre-text	p. 26
Sponsors, Authors, and Meaning in the Entries of Elizabeth and James	p. 30
Allegory, Instability, and Material Practice	p. 33
Elizabeth's Early Self-representation	p. 36
The Sexual Economy of the Passage	p. 40
Truth, the Daughter of the Signifier	p. 43
Profits and Representations	p. 48
Engendering Policy at Kenilworth (1575)	p. 56
Ambition and Policy	p. 57
Kenilworth's Two Texts	p. 61
The Terms of the Visit	p. 65
A Proposal of Marriage	p. 70
Elizabeth's Imprisonment	p. 72
A "Military Skirmish" and Questions of Policy in the Netherlands	p. 78
"By soveraigne maidens might"	p. 86
Elizabeth, Dudley, and the Competition for Representation	p. 92
Engendered Violence: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Definitions of Chastity (1590)	p. 97
Turning Sixty in the 1590s	p. 98
The Queen's Presence	p. 104
Elizabeth's Later Strategies of Self-representation	p. 107
Spenser and the Definitions of Chastity	p. 114
Love, Magic, and the Female Audience	p. 120
The Topography of Threat and Rape	p. 124
"So cruelly to pen": Denying Rape and Having It, Too	p. 128
Spenser and Busirane	p. 132
Captivity: Essex and the Queen	p. 135
Captivity: Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen	p. 139
Epilogue: Reading Elizabeth Reading	p. 144
Notes	p. 149
Selected Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 217
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