The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern EnglandRoutledge, 17. juuni 2014 - 218 pages The Legacy of Boadicea explores the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England. It highlights the problems and anxieties of national identity in a nation with no native classical past. Written in an accessible style, The Legacy of Boadicea: * offers powerful new readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline * persuasively illuminates a 'Boadicean' heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women. |
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... contemporary efforts to define and represent the na tion, and also the recovery of the nation's birth or origins in antiquity. I use the term “native” rather than “national” when referring to the earliest known inhabitants of the island ...
... contemporary efforts to define and represent the na tion, and also the recovery of the nation's birth or origins in antiquity. I use the term “native” rather than “national” when referring to the earliest known inhabitants of the island ...
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... contemporary social and political issues, particularly those related to fa milial roles and gender relations. Drawing on feminist political theory and history of the family, I pursue the connections between the resolution of certain ...
... contemporary social and political issues, particularly those related to fa milial roles and gender relations. Drawing on feminist political theory and history of the family, I pursue the connections between the resolution of certain ...
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... contemporary European counterparts and the Vulgate in this regard, arguing strongly for a pecu liarly English emphasis on political self-definition in biblical references (51-9).8 Both self-defining and self-alienating, the idea of the ...
... contemporary European counterparts and the Vulgate in this regard, arguing strongly for a pecu liarly English emphasis on political self-definition in biblical references (51-9).8 Both self-defining and self-alienating, the idea of the ...
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... contemporary naval explora tion in the search for new territory and trade routes, Camden complained in the Britannia, “who is so skillful as in this dark ocean of antiquity to struggle with time without splitting on the rocks” (1610 ...
... contemporary naval explora tion in the search for new territory and trade routes, Camden complained in the Britannia, “who is so skillful as in this dark ocean of antiquity to struggle with time without splitting on the rocks” (1610 ...
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... contemporary accounts of their ances tors, they found the ancient Britons depicted as just such an ignorant race. Tacitus was the most explicit in this regard, introducing his de scription of the ancient Britons in the Agricola with the ...
... contemporary accounts of their ances tors, they found the ancient Britons depicted as just such an ignorant race. Tacitus was the most explicit in this regard, introducing his de scription of the ancient Britons in the Agricola with the ...
Contents
1 From Mater Terra to the Artificial Man | |
2 King Lear and the tragedy of native origins | |
3 Cymbeline and the masculine romance of Roman Britain | |
4 The domestication of the savage queen | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 2014 |
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 1998 |
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 1998 |
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