Aemilia Lanyer

Author : Marshall Grossman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813149370

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Aemilia Lanyer by Marshall Grossman Pdf

Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems. Using standard genres to address distinctly feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" repeatedly projects a female subject for a female reader and casts the Passion in terms of gender conflict. Lanyer also carried this concern with gender into the very structure of the poem; whereas a work of praise usually held up the superiority of its patrons, the good women in Lanyer's poem exemplify worth women in general. The essays in this volume establish the facts of Lanyer's life and use her poetry to interrogate that of her male contemporaries, Donne, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Lanyer's work sheds light on views of gender and class identities in early modern society. By using Lanyer to look at the larger issues of women writers working within a patriarchal system, the authors go beyond the explication of Lanyer's writing to address the dynamics of canonization and the construction of literary history.

Author : Aemilia Lanyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019508361X

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The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer by Aemilia Lanyer Pdf

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England. Almost completely neglected until very recently, her work changes our perspective on Jacobean poetry and contradicts the common assumption that women wrote nothing of serious interest until much later. Mistress and friend of influential Elizabethan courtiers, Lanyer gives us a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations of a talented middle class Renaissance woman.

Author : Marshall Grossman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813182803

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Aemilia Lanyer by Marshall Grossman Pdf

Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems. Using standard genres to address distinctly feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" repeatedly projects a female subject for a female reader and casts the Passion in terms of gender conflict. Lanyer also carried this concern with gender into the very structure of the poem; whereas a work of praise usually held up the superiority of its patrons, the good women in Lanyer's poem exemplify worth women in general. The essays in this volume establish the facts of Lanyer's life and use her poetry to interrogate that of her male contemporaries, Donne, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Lanyer's work sheds light on views of gender and class identities in early modern society. By using Lanyer to look at the larger issues of women writers working within a patriarchal system, the authors go beyond the explication of Lanyer's writing to address the dynamics of canonization and the construction of literary history.

Author : Mark Bradbeer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000567212

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Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author by Mark Bradbeer Pdf

This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer – female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare contemporary – is Shakespeare’s hidden and arguably most significant co-author. Once dismissed as the mere paramour of Shakespeare’s patron, Lord Hunsdon, she is demonstrated to be a most articulate forerunner of #MeToo fury. Building on previous research into the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, Bradbeer offers evidence in the form of three case studies which signal Aemilia’s collaboration with Shakespeare. The first case study matches the works of "George Wilkins" – who is currently credited as the co-author of the feminist Shakespeare play Pericles (1608) – with Aemilia Lanyer’s writing style, education, feminism and knowledge of Lord Hunsdon’s secret sexual life. The second case-study recognizes Titus Andronicus (1594), a play containing the characters Aemilius and Bassianus, to be a revision of the suppressed play Titus and Vespasian (1592), as authored by the unmarried pregnant Aemilia Bassano, as she then was. Lastly, it is argued that Shakespeare’s clowns, Bottom, Launce, Malvolio, Dromio, Dogberry, Jaques, and Moth, arise in her deeply personal war with the misogynist Thomas Nashe. Each case study reveals new aspects of Lanyer’s feminist activism and involvement in Shakespeare’s work, and allows for a deeper analysis and appreciation of the plays. This research will prove provocative to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies, English literature, literary history, and gender studies.

Author : Andrew Fleck
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535850933

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Andrew Fleck Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Sally O'Reilly
Publisher : Myriad Editions (US&CA)
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908434425

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Dark Aemilia by Sally O'Reilly Pdf

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright; Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, a finalist for the Italian Premio del Castello del Terriccio, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry, and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets—the playwright's muse and his one true love. The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen's favorite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful, and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen's cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably. A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O'Reilly's richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition, and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England's first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages—a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself, and true to her heart.

Author : Susanne Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195352344

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Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet by Susanne Woods Pdf

Aemilia Bassano Lanyer published poetry to and for women in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. Her verse complements and extends our view of her contemporaries, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne, whose work in turn provides a context for her unique and engaging voice. This book situates Lanyer within the rich tradition of Jacobean poetry.

Author : Beatrijs Vanacker,Lieke van Deinsen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462703308

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Portraits and Poses by Beatrijs Vanacker,Lieke van Deinsen Pdf

Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural view on authority construction among early modern female intellectuals The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.

Author : Onnaca Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X70968

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Design of Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Onnaca Heron Pdf

Author : Charlene Ball
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631522291

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Dark Lady by Charlene Ball Pdf

2017-2018 Sarton Women's Book Awards Winner in Historical Fiction 2018 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Historical Emilia Bassano has four strikes against her: she is poor, beautiful, female, and intelligent in Elizabethan England. To make matters worse, she comes from a family of secret Jews. When she is raped as a teenager, she knows she probably will not be able to make a good marriage, so she becomes the mistress of a much older nobleman. During this time she falls in love with poet/player William Shakespeare, and they have a brief, passionate relationship—but when the plague comes to England, the nobleman abandons her, leaving her pregnant and without financial security. In the years that follow, Emilia is forced to make a number of difficult decisions in her efforts to survive, and not all of them turn out well for her. But ultimately, despite the disadvantaged position she was born to, she succeeds in pursuing her dreams of becoming a writer—and even publishes a book of poetry in 1611 that makes a surprisingly modern argument for women’s equality.

Author : Micheline White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351964876

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 by Micheline White Pdf

Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past ten years and scholars have increasingly realized that their bold and often unorthodox works challenge previously-held conceptions about women's engagement with early modern secular and religious literary culture. This volume collects some of the most influential and innovative essays that elucidate these women's works from a wide range of feminist, literary, aesthetic, economic, racial, sexual and theological perspectives. The volume is prefaced by an extended editorial overview of scholarship in the field.

Author : Virginia Brackett
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108353

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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry by Virginia Brackett Pdf

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author : James Fitzmaurice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472066099

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Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-century England by James Fitzmaurice Pdf

The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers

Author : Lynn Keller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472064843

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Feminist Measures by Lynn Keller Pdf

Explores the role of gender in poetic production, the tensions between poetry and contemporary literary theory, and the fluid boundaries between theoretical and literary writing.

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio,Scott Oldenburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000487695

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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace by Kristin M.S. Bezio,Scott Oldenburg Pdf

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the "modern" conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.