Writing Women in Jacobean England.

XII, 431 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed and stained binding, pencil annotation on mock title, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas beriebener und angeschmutzter Einband, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women, Writing, and Resistance in Jacobean England -- I THE ROYAL OPPOSITION -- 1. Enacting Opposition: Queen Anne and the Subversions of Masquing -- 2. Scripting a Heroine’s Role: Princess Elizabeth and the Politics of Romance -- 3. Writing Resistance in Letters: Arbella Stuart and the Rhetoric of Disguise and Defiance -- II RE-WRITING PATRIARCHY -- 4. Exercising Power: The Countess of Bedford as Courtier, Patron, and Coterie Poet -- 5. Claiming Patrimony and Constructing a Self: Anne Clifford and Her Diary -- 6. Defending Women’s Essential Equality: Rachel Speght’s Polemics and Poems -- III LITERARY RE-VISIONS -- 7. Resisting Tyrants: Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy and History -- 8. Imagining Female Community: Aemilia Lanyer’s Poems -- 9 Revising Genres and Claiming the Woman’s Part: Mary Wroth’s Oeuvre -- Afterword: The Politics of Jacobean Women’s Writing -- Appendix A. Elizabeth, Lady Falkland, and the Authorship of Edward II -- Appendix B: Presentation Copies of Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum -- Notes -- Index. - Barbara Kiefer Lewalski is Kenan Professor of History and Literature and of English Literature at Harvard University. ISBN 9780674962439