Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage (Hardcover, 0)

In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists -- men and women -- conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Katja Pilhuj
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463722018
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS) > Map making & projections Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	9463722017
Barcode:	9789463722018

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