Authorizing early modern European women from biography to biofiction
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 midwive...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2022.
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| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649787806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age
- Section I: Fictionalizing Biography
- 2. Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint
- 3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman : Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix
- 4. An Interview with Dominic Smith , Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century
- 5. Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction
- 6. Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations , and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish
- Section II: Materializing Authorship
- 7. Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography
- 8. The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart
- 9. "Very Secret Kept": Facts and Re- Creation in Margaret Hannay's Biographies of Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth
- 10. Imagining Shakespeare's Sisters : Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth
- 11. Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media
- Section III: Performing Gender
- 12. Reclaiming Her Time : Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century
- 13. Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery
- 14. Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors
- 15. Jesusa Rodríguez's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Reflections on an Opaque Body
- Section IV: Authoring Identity
- 16. From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater : Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture
- 17. The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola
- 18. "I am Artemisia": Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water Paint
- 19. The Lady Arbella Stuart, a "Rare Phoenix" : Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction
- 20. The Gossips' Choice : Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources
- 21. Afterword
- Index
