The last Plantagenet consorts : gender, genre, and historiography, 1440-1627 /
"Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrications themselves as narratives, and as reflections of questions and anxieties that haunted their...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Queenship and power.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrications themselves as narratives, and as reflections of questions and anxieties that haunted their writers. By focusing on the relationship between gender and genre and the way embedded literary narratives echo across texts as disparate as chronicles, parliamentary proceedings, diplomatic correspondence, ballads, poetry, and drama, this study reveals hitherto unexplored tensions within these texts, generated by embedded narratives and their implications"-- |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230392991 (electronic bk.) 0230392997 (electronic bk.) |