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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Female friendship in literature.
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Women and literature -- England.
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1 online resource (x, 272 pages). |
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online resource cr |
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Introduction -- The politics of women's "domestic" alliances. Distaff power: plebeian female alliances in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- Between women: slanderous speech and neighborly bonds in Henry Porter's The two angry women of Abington / Ronda Arab -- The political role of the gossip in Swetnam the woman-hater, arraigned by women / Megan Inbody -- Virtual and actual female alliance in The maid's tragedy and The tamer tamed / Niamh J. O'Leary -- Failed alliances and miserable marriages in Katherine Philips's letters / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Women's alliances and the politics of the court. Performing patronage, crafting alliances: ladies' lotteries in English pageantry / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich -- Tyrants, love, and ladies' eyes: the politics of female-boy alliance on the Jacobean stage Roberta Barker -- Her advocate to the loudest: Arbella Stuart and female courtly alliance in The winter's tale / Alicia Tomasian -- Not sparing kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the religious politics of female alliance / Christina Luckyj -- The politics of female kinship. Shakespeare revises Juliet, the nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet / Steven Urkowitz -- Crossing generations: female alliances and dynastic power in Anne Clifford's great books of record / Jessica l. Malay -- Exilic inspiration and the captive life: the literary/political alliances of the Cavendish sisters / Jennifer Higginbotham -- Afterword / Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. |
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Alt author |
Luckyj, Christina, 1956-
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O'Leary, Niamh J., 1980-
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ISBN |
9781496202789 (electronic bk.) |
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1496202783 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496202802 (electronic bk.) |
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1496202805 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496202796 (electronic book) |
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1496202791 (electronic book) |
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1496202791 |
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9781496201997 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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149620199X |
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9781496201997 |
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