TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilhuj,Katja
TI  - Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
T2  - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
SN  - 9789048544226
U1  - 822.052 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Cartography in literature
KW  - History
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Theater
KW  - England
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - AUP Wetenschappelijk
KW  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Geography, Renaissance drama, women, representation
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Confuting Those Blind Geographers --; 2. ‘T’illumine the now obscurèd Palestine’ --; 3. ‘Willing to Pay Their Maidenheads’ --; 4. ‘The Fort of her Chastity’ --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists -- men and women -- conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544226?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048544226
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048544226/original
ER  -