Authorizing Early Modern European Women From Biography to Biofiction

The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwive...

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Hauptverfasser:	Fitzmaurice, James, Miller, Naomi J., Steen, Sara Jayne
Format:	E-Book Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Netherlands Amsterdam University Press 06.12.2021 Taylor & Francis Group
Ausgabe:	1
Schriftenreihe:	Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Schlagworte:	History Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes The arts. Fine and decorative arts Women Women LITERARY CRITICISM ART 1500 to c 1700 Europe Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800 South Early Modern Studies Literary Theory, Criticism, and History Subjects & Themes Women Artists History, Art History, and Archaeology History of art AUP Wetenschappelijk Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Modern period, c 1500 onwards Gender and Sexuality Studies Art and Material Cultures Early Modern Women, Historical Women, Biofiction, Biography, Renaissance Women Early modern history: c 1450 Social and cultural history c 1500 onwards to present day HISTORY
ISBN:	9789463727143, 9463727140, 9048552907, 9789048552900, 1041176007, 9781041176008
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20. "The Gossips' Choice: Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources" -- 21. Afterword -- Index
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age" -- Section I: Fictionalizing Biography -- 2. "Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint" -- 3. "Portrait of an Unknown Woman: Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix" -- 4. "An Interview with Dominic Smith, Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century" -- 5. "Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction" -- 6. "Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations, and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish" -- Section II: Materializing Authorship -- 7. "Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography" -- 8. "The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart" -- 9. "'Very Secret Kept': Facts and Re-Creation in Margaret Hannay's Biographies of Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Wroth" -- 10. "Imagining Shakespeare's Sisters: Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth" -- 11. "Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media" -- Section III: Performing Gender -- 12. "Reclaiming Her Time: Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century" -- 13. "Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery" -- 14. "Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors" -- 15. "Jesusa Rodríguez's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Reflections on an Opaque Body" -- Section IV: Authoring Identity -- 16. "From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater: Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture" -- 17. "The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola" -- 18. "'I Am Artemisia': Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water Paint" -- 19. "The Lady Arbella Stuart, a 'Rare Phoenix': Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction"