Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction (1) (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World)

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Synopsis
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 midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040791554
Related ISBNs:
9781003691365, 9781041176008, 9781040785577, 9789463727143
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
J. Fitzmaurice, N.J. Miller, S.J. Steen / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
James Fitzmaurice
Edited by:
Naomi Miller
Edited by:
Sara Jayne Steen

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