Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others

by Miller,Naomi J.

• ISBN13: 9780754640103
• ISBN10: 0754640108
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Focusing attention on the neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies approaches, prominent scholars consider sibling ties from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives - including art history, musicology, literary studies, and social history - to articulate underlying paradigms according to which sibling relations were constructed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of figures	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction: Thicker than Water: Evaluating Sibling Relations in the Early Modern Period	1	(14)
Naomi J. Miller
Naomi Yavneh
Divine devotion
Making a Saint out of a Sibling	15	(13)
Susan D. Laningham
Recusant Sisters: English Catholic Women and the Bonds of Learning	28	(12)
Kari Boyd McBride
Families, Convents, Music: The Power of Sisterhood	40	(13)
Craig A. Monson
`Liebe Schwester ...': Siblings, Convents, and the Reformation	53	(11)
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Ties that bind
Resisting Henri IV: Catherine de Bourbon and her Brother	64	(13)
Jane Couchman
Sister-Subject/Sister-Queen: Elizabeth I among her Siblings	77	(12)
Carole Levin
Mary Sidney's Other Brothers	89	(15)
Margaret P. Hannay
Drawing the line
The Politics of Private Discourse: Familial Relations in Lady May Wroth's Urania	104	(12)
Sheila T. Cavanagh
When the Mirror Lies: Sisterhood Reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro	116	(13)
Valeria Finucci
Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli: Musicians and Sororal Relations in Later Sixteenth-Century Venice	129	(11)
Rebecca Edwards
The Shame of Siblings in David and Bethsabe	140	(10)
Stephen Guy-Bray
Sibling Bonds and Bondage in (and beyond) Shakespeare's The Tempest	150	(16)
Naomi J. Miller
Hand in hand
Playing the Game: Sisterly Relations in Sofonisba Anguissola's The Chess Game	166	(16)
Naomi Yavneh
`My Deare Sister': Sainted Sisterhood in Early Modern England	182	(13)
Kathryn R. McPherson
Sisterly Feelings in Cavendish and Brackley's Drama	195	(11)
Alison Findlay
`Thy Passionately Loving Sister and Faithfull Friend': Anne Dormer's Letters to her Sister Lady Trumbull	206	(10)
Sara Mendelson
Mary O'Connor
Siblings, Publications, and the Transmission of Memory: Johann Albert Hinrich and Elise Reimarus	216	(12)
Almut Spalding
Thicker than Blood: l'oltr'altra	228	(3)
Naomi J. Miller
Naomi Yavneh
Index	231