Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation (Queenship and Power) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030951308 ISBN 13: 9783030951306

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.

About this title

About the Author

Jessica S. Hower is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, USA. 

Valerie Schutte is an independent scholar who specializes in royal Tudor women and book dedications. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030951308
• ISBN 13: 9783030951306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 315
• Editor: Schutte Valerie, Hower Jessica S.