The Legacy of Boadicea : Gender and Nation in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780415182638 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 218 str.

Jodi Mikalachki

Opis

Exploring the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England, this work highlights problems and anxieties attendant on historicist projects of national identity in a nation with no native classical past. Pre-eminent among these anxieties was the fear of a savage femininity at the very origins of the nation. Boadicea, the ancient warrior queen, epitomized early modern beliefs in the inevitable excess and failure of female rule. Written in an accessible style, the book offers readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline; illuminates a Boadicean heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent; and articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women.

Recenzje

'Anyone involved in the history, culture or literature of early modern England should find her book indispensable' - N'ora S'ellei, HJEAS

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 From Mater Terra to the Artificial Man; Chapter 2 King Lear and the Tragedy of Native Origins; Chapter 3 Cymbeline and the Masculine Romance of Roman Britain; Chapter 4 The Domestication of the Savage Queen; Epilogue;

O autorze

Mikalachki, Jodi