Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

Book Overview

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331964047X
• ISBN13: 9783319640471
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"