LEADER 04693nam 22007815 450 001 9910781735403321 005 20210114062317.0 010 $a1-283-21202-1 010 $a9786613212023 010 $a0-8122-0330-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203301 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050865 035 $a(OCoLC)759158174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491892 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11965806 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10554184 035 $a(PQKB)10603600 035 $a(DE-B1597)449174 035 $a(OCoLC)979753703 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203301 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050865 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIncest and Agency in Elizabeth's England /$fMaureen Quilligan 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1905-8 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. Halting the Traffic in Women: Theoretical Foundations -- $t2. Elizabeth I (with a Note on Marguerite de Navarre) -- $t3. Sir Philip Sidney's Queen -- $t4. Mary Sidney Herbert (with a Note on Elizabeth Cary) -- $t5. Spenser's Britomart -- $t6. Mary Wroth -- $t7. Shakespeare's Cordelia -- $tEpilogue: Milton's Eve -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aMaureen Quilligan explores the remarkable presence in the Renaissance of what she calls "incest schemes" in the books of a small number of influential women who claimed an active female authority by writing in high canonical genres and who, even more transgressively for the time, sought publication in print.It is no accident for Quilligan that the first printed work of Elizabeth I was a translation done at age eleven of a poem by Marguerite de Navarre, in which the notion of "holy" incest is the prevailing trope. Nor is it coincidental that Mary Wroth, author of the first sonnet cycle and prose romance by a woman printed in English, described in these an endogamous, if not legally incestuous, illegitimate relationship with her first cousin. Sir Philip Sidney and his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, translated the psalms together, and after his death she finished his work by revising it for publication; the two were the subject of rumors of incest. Isabella Whitney cast one of her most important long poems as a fictive legacy to her brother, arguably because such a relationship resonated with the power of endogamous female agency. Elizabeth Carey's closet drama about Mariam, the wife of Herod, spends important energy on the tie between sister and brother. Quilligan also reads male-authored meditations on the relationship between incest and female agency and sees a far different Cordelia, Britomart, and Eve from what traditional scholarship has heretofore envisioned.Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England makes a signal contribution to the conversation about female agency in the early modern period. While contemporary anthropological theory deeply informs her understanding of why some Renaissance women writers wrote as they did, Quilligan offers an important corrective to modern theorizing that is grounded in the historical texts themselves. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$2bisac 606 $aWomen Authors$2bisac 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$zEngland 606 $aIncest in literature$xHistory$y16th century$zEngland 606 $aFeminism and literature$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWomen and literature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM 615 7$aWomen Authors 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aIncest in literature$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a820.93552 700 $aQuilligan$b Maureen, $0154406 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781735403321 996 $aIncest and Agency in Elizabeth's England$93759882 997 $aUNINA