In this examination of Sir Philip Sidney, author of the famous romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, and his family, Elizabeth Mazzola argues that families are a form of poetic projects. The Sidney family, and members of the so-called 'Sidney circle' aimed to celebrate Sir Philip's life through literary tradition - they repeatedly turned to writing their own poetry as a vehicle to analyze or extend familial connections. Mazzola illustrates that Sidney's family, by celebrating the work of their brilliant loved one, actually demonstrated the unique attributes and transformation of the...
In this examination of Sir Philip Sidney, author of the famous romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, and his family, Elizabeth Mazzola argues t...
This examination of the fate of lost ideas after the Protestant reformation explores what might be called the pathology of the Renaissance. The first part of the book treats Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost, concentrating on vacant cultural spaces and abandoned icons to trace the gap between sacred and secular life, between poetry and belief. The second part focuses on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam to investigate the eschatological implications of this gap, the ways that history is disentangled from memory and...
This examination of the fate of lost ideas after the Protestant reformation explores what might be called the pathology of the Renaissance. The first ...
Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled relationship between Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Bess of Hardwick, and Arbella Stuart, Elizabeth Mazzola more broadly explores what early modern women might exchange with or leave to each other, including jewels and cloth, needlework, combs, and candlesticks. Women's writings take their place in...
Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmi...
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing--lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order--Shakespeare was interested in such women's plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare's Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figures related to the mythical Persephone who famously returns to her mother and the earth each spring, only to withdraw from the world each winter...
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing--lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marr...
