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9780812219050

Incest And Agency In Elizabeth's England

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812219050

  • ISBN10:

    0812219058

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-12
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

In direct contrast to our modern understanding of incest, "Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England" seeks to demonstrate that, during the Renaissance, a small number of important women used incest, imagined or actual, to empower their authorship.

Author Biography

Maureen Quilligan is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Department Chair at Duke University. She is the author, most recently, of The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames.

Table of Contents

Halting the Traffic in Women: Theoretical Foundations
1(32)
Elizabeth I (with a Note on Marguerite de Navarre)
33(43)
Sir Philip Sidney's Queen
76(26)
Mary Sidney Herbert (with a Note on Elizabeth Cary)
102(32)
Spenser's Britomart
134(30)
Mary Wroth
164(49)
Shakespeare's Cordelia
213(23)
Epilogue: Milton's Eve 236(9)
Notes 245(28)
Index 273(6)
Acknowledgments 279

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