Elizabeth I The Competition for Representation

Name: Elizabeth I The Competition for Representation
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ISBN: 9780195113839

ISBN-10: 0195113837

ISBN-13: 9780195113839

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

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: $98.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: Who Represents Elizabeth?



Engendered Economics: Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559)


Queen Mary as Pre-text


Sponsors, Authors, and Meaning in the Entries of Elizabeth and James


Allegory, Instability, and Material Practice


Elizabeth's Early Self-representation


The Sexual Economy of the Passage


Truth, the Daughter of the Signifier


Profits and Representations



Engendering Policy at Kenilworth (1575)


Ambition and Policy


Kenilworth's Two Texts


The Terms of the Visit


A Proposal of Marriage


Elizabeth's Imprisonment


A "Military Skirmish" and Questions of Policy in the Netherlands


"By soveraigne maidens might"


Elizabeth, Dudley, and the Competition for Representation



Engendered Violence: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Definitions of Chastity (1590)


Turning Sixty in the 1590s


The Queen's Presence


Elizabeth's Later Strategies of Self-representation


Spenser and the Definitions of Chastity


Love, Magic, and the Female Audience


The Topography of Threat and Rape


"So cruelly to pen": Denying Rape and Having It, Too


Spenser and Busirane


Captivity: Essex and the Queen


Captivity: Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen


Epilogue: Reading Elizabeth Reading


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index