02183oam 22003853a 450 991102907340332120251105192159.11-003-69136-690-485-5290-710.5117/9789463727143(CKB)40997671000041(OCoLC)1545652205(OCoLC-P)1545652205(FlBoTFG)9781003691365(EXLCZ)994099767100004120250924d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||Authorizing early modern European women from biography to biofiction /edited by James Fitzmaurice, Naomi J. Miller, and Sara Jayne SteenRoutledge20221 online resource94-6372-714-0 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 midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.WomenEuropeHistoryWomenHistory.305.4094Fitzmaurice James1427558Miller Naomi J.1960-870094Steen Sara Jayne1879373OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9911029073403321Authorizing early modern European women4492535UNINA