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Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney s Arcadia
studies cultural ideologies regarding gender and monarchy in early
modern England by examining transformations of a single text, Sir
Philip Sidney s Arcadia, in their historical contexts. It reveals
changing tensions in the ideological struggles over queenship,
especially with respect to cultural debates focused on anxieties
about gendered reception and interpretation of persuasive rhetoric.
The cultural shift between about 1550 and 1650 regarding gendered
interpretation and political rule a shift that was by no means
complete or homogenous reflects the changing position of women and
their relationship to language within early modern domestic and
political ideological discourses. The book begins by investigating
primary cultural, political, and historical sources in order to
provide a cultural scaffolding helpful to the interpretation of
Sidney s enormously popular work. These sources include conduct
manuals, gynecocratic debates, paintings, poems, diaries,
pamphlets, and letters. Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule
then considers the initial version of the Arcadia (the Old Arcadia)
Sidney authored and argues that Sidney s involvement in the
marriage debate regarding the Duke of Anjou s courtship of
Elizabeth I in the late 1570s shaped his representations of female
characters and their questionable ability to interpret persuasive
rhetoric. Next, the book turns to Sidney s expanded and revised
version (the New Arcadia), authorized and published by his sister
the Countess of Pembroke Mary Sidney Herbert. The New Arcadia
ultimately provides a more positive representation of women readers
and rulers and reveals a shift in cultural understandings of women
s relationship to the persuasive rhetoric that both describes and
enacts political power and authority. The penultimate chapter
examines paradigms of active reading and their political
consequences in Lady Mary Wroth s The Countess of Montgomery s
Urania that demonstrate a need for well-balanced identification
with characters. Finally, this book focuses on a little-studied
seventeenth-century continuation of Sidney s work by a young woman,
Anna Weamys, who asserts her authority as an interpreter of Sidney
s Arcadia and in the process creates a political commentary about
the legitimacy of female authority and influence just after the
English Civil War."
Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney s Arcadia
studies cultural ideologies regarding gender and monarchy in early
modern England by examining transformations of a single text, Sir
Philip Sidney s Arcadia, in their historical contexts. It reveals
changing tensions in the ideological struggles over queenship,
especially with respect to cultural debates focused on anxieties
about gendered reception and interpretation of persuasive rhetoric.
The cultural shift between about 1550 and 1650 regarding gendered
interpretation and political rule a shift that was by no means
complete or homogenous reflects the changing position of women and
their relationship to language within early modern domestic and
political ideological discourses. The book begins by investigating
primary cultural, political, and historical sources in order to
provide a cultural scaffolding helpful to the interpretation of
Sidney s enormously popular work. These sources include conduct
manuals, gynecocratic debates, paintings, poems, diaries,
pamphlets, and letters. Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule
then considers the initial version of the Arcadia (the Old Arcadia)
Sidney authored and argues that Sidney s involvement in the
marriage debate regarding the Duke of Anjou s courtship of
Elizabeth I in the late 1570s shaped his representations of female
characters and their questionable ability to interpret persuasive
rhetoric. Next, the book turns to Sidney s expanded and revised
version (the New Arcadia), authorized and published by his sister
the Countess of Pembroke Mary Sidney Herbert. The New Arcadia
ultimately provides a more positive representation of women readers
and rulers and reveals a shift in cultural understandings of women
s relationship to the persuasive rhetoric that both describes and
enacts political power and authority. The penultimate chapter
examines paradigms of active reading and their political
consequences in Lady Mary Wroth s The Countess of Montgomery s
Urania that demonstrate a need for well-balanced identification
with characters. Finally, this book focuses on a little-studied
seventeenth-century continuation of Sidney s work by a young woman,
Anna Weamys, who asserts her authority as an interpreter of Sidney
s Arcadia and in the process creates a political commentary about
the legitimacy of female authority and influence just after the
English Civil War."
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