{"product_id":"the-politics-of-female-alliance-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9781496201997","title":"The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England (Hardback) 9781496201997","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristina Luckyj (Edited by), Niamh J. O'Leary (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496201997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, Index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“An excellent exploration of the ways that politics-writ large-resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.”-Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the last thirty years scholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law help shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women’s political alliances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrouped into three sections-domestic, court, and kinship alliances-these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Offering new perspectives on female authors such as the Cavendish sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips, as well as on male-authored texts such as \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSwetnam the Woman-Hater\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Maid’s Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, the essays bring both familiar and unfamiliar texts into conversation about the political potential of female alliances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome contributors are skeptical about allied women’s political power, while others suggest that such female communities had considerable potential to contain, maintain, or subvert political hierarchies. A wide variety of approaches to the political are represented in the volume and the scope will make it appealing to a broad audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Editors’\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. The Politics of Women’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eDomestic”\u003cbr\u003e Alliances\u003cbr\u003e 1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e Bernard Capp\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’\u003cbr\u003es The Two Angry Women of Abington\u003cbr\u003e Ronda Arab\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women \u003cbr\u003e Megan Inbody\u003cbr\u003e 4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’\u003cbr\u003es Tragedy and The Tamer Tamed\u003cbr\u003e Niamh J. O’\u003cbr\u003eLeary\u003cbr\u003e 5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’\u003cbr\u003es Letters \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Hodgson\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Women’\u003cbr\u003es Alliances and the Politics of the Court\u003cbr\u003e 6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’\u003cbr\u003e Lotteries in English Pageantry\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich\u003cbr\u003e 7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’\u003cbr\u003e Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean Stage\u003cbr\u003e Roberta Barker\u003cbr\u003e 8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’\u003cbr\u003es Tale\u003cbr\u003e Alicia Tomasian\u003cbr\u003e 9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance \u003cbr\u003e Christina Luckyj\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. The Politics of Female Kinship\u003cbr\u003e 10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet\u003cbr\u003e Steven Urkowitz\u003cbr\u003e 11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’\u003cbr\u003es Great Books of Record \u003cbr\u003e Jessica L. Malay\u003cbr\u003e 12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary \/ Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters \u003cbr\u003e Jennifer Higginbotham\u003cbr\u003e 13. Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Susan Frye and Karen Robertson\u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599880810776,"sku":"9781496201997","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-female-alliance-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9781496201997","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}