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Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

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Editors:
  1. Anna Riehl Bertolet

    1. Auburn University, Auburn, USA

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  • Collects cutting-edge scholarship on early modern queenship
  • Features leading scholars in the field of queenship studies
  • Includes a wide range of angles and approaches to the study of queens in the early modern period
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole Levin

    • Anna R. Bertolet
    Pages 1-15

  3. Prelude: Studying Queens

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Queenship and Power: The Heart and Stomach of a Book Series

      • Charles Beem
      Pages 19-28
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About this book

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

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“This impressive collection makes a significant contribution to our understanding of queenship.  The engaging essays range across centuries and disciplinary boundaries, exploring subjects as diverse as early modern fairy tales, Anne Boleyn’s coronation pageants, Elizabeth I as a godmother, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World, and more.  In their richness and variety, they are a fitting tribute to groundbreaking scholar Carole Levin.” (Mary Villeponteaux, Professor of Literature, Georgia Southern University, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Auburn University, Auburn, USA

    Anna Riehl Bertolet

About the editor

Anna Riehl Bertolet is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, USA. She is the author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I (2010); and co-editor of Tudor Court Culture (2010), A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen 1500-1650: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts (2016), and Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom: Creativity in Early English Literature and History Courses (forthcoming from ACMRS, 2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

  • Editors: Anna Riehl Bertolet

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64048-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64047-1Published: 21 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87708-2Published: 31 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64048-8Published: 08 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Gender Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland

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