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Author:

DeZur, Kathryn.

Title:

Gender, interpretation, and political rule in Sidney's Arcadia / Kathryn DeZur.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxxvii, 153 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586.--Arcadia.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Gender identity in literature.
Arcadia in literature.
Wroth, Mary,--Lady,--ca. 1586-ca. 1640.--Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania.
Weamys, Anna,--b. ca. 1630.--Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index.

Contents:

Queens and wives -- Wives and regents as readers -- Defending the castle in Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Counting the countess -- Lady Mary Wroth's reading of romance -- Sewing accord with A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.

Summary:

Describes the literary reaction of three women to Sidney's Arcadia; Lady Mary Sidney Herbert (Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (Urania), and Anna Weamys (Continuation of Sir Philip Syndey's Arcadia) wrote responses to Arcadia that engage with the same issues of the power of rhetoric and rule by women that Sidney tackles in Arcadia.

ISBN:

1611494192 (electronic)
9781611494198 (electronic)
1611494184 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611494181 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)811777679

LCCN:

2012036980

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)