Authorizing Early Modern European Women (eBook, PDF)

From Biography to Biofiction
Redaktion: Fitzmaurice, James; Steen, Sara Jayne; Miller, Naomi

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040785577
• Artikelnr.: 75565000

Autorenporträt

James Fitzmaurice is emeritus professor of English at Northern Arizona University and honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield. He has published a great deal on Margaret Cavendish, and his screenplays have been selected for or won prizes at many film festivals. Naomi J. Miller is Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has published award-winning books on early modern women and gender and teaches courses on Shakespeare and his female contemporaries. Sara Jayne Steen has authored and edited five volumes largely on early modern women and theater, including The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, and has received awards for teaching and scholarship. She was faculty member, chair, and dean at Montana State University and is president emerita of Plymouth State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments, 1. James Fitzmaurice, Naomi J. Miller, and Sara Jayne
Steen: Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age,
Section I: Fictionalizing Biography, 2. Bárbara Mujica: Sister Teresa:
Fictionalizing a Saint [Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582); practitioner: nun;
author], 3. Catherine Padmore: Portrait of an Unknown Woman: Fictional
Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix [Levina Teerlinc
(1510/20-1576); visual artist], 4. Frima Fox Hofrichter: An Interview with
Dominic Smith, Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the
Seventeenth Century [Judith Leyster (1609-1660) and Sara van Baalbergen
(fl. 1631-1634); visual artists], 5. Susanne Woods: Lanyer: The Dark Lady
and the Shades of Fiction [Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); author], 6. Marina
Leslie: Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations, and the Burden of Margaret
Cavendish [Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673); author], Section II:
Materializing Authorship, 7. Susan Frye: Bess of Hardwick: Materializing
Autobiography [Elizabeth Talbot (1527?-1608); creator of textiles], 8.
Sarah Gristwood: The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart [Mary
Queen of Scots (1542-1587) and Elizabeth I (1533-1603); practitioners:
queens; embroiderer; authors], 9. Marion Wynne-Davies: 'Very Secret Kept':
Facts and Re-Creation in Margaret Hannay's Biographies of Mary Sidney
Herbert and Mary Wroth [Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621) and Mary Wroth
(1586-1652); authors], 10. Naomi J. Miller: Imagining Shakespeare's
Sisters: Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth [Mary
Sidney Herbert (1561-1621) and Mary Wroth (1586-1652); authors], 11. Linda
Phyllis Austern: Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and
Media[Anne Boleyn (c. 1500-1536); musician], Section III: Performing
Gender, 12. Sheila T. Cavanagh: Reclaiming Her Time: Artemisia Gentileschi
Speaks to the Twenty-First Century [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656);
visual artist], 13. Hailey Bachrach: Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist
Historical Recovery [Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); author], 14. James
Fitzmaurice: Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About
Early Modern Women Authors [Aphra Behn (1640-1689) and Margaret Cavendish
(1623-1673); authors], 15. Emilie L. Bergmann: Jesusa Rodríguez's Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz: Reflections on an Opaque Body[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
(1648-1695); practitioner: nun; author], Section IV: Authoring Identity,
16. Margaret F. Rosenthal: From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater: Veronica
Franco in American Popular Culture [Veronica Franco (1546-1591); author],
17. Julia Dabbs: The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba
Anguissola [Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625); visual artist], 18. Stephanie
Russo: 'I Am Artemisia': Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water
Paint [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656); visual artist], 19. Sara Jayne
Steen: The Lady Arbella Stuart, a 'Rare Phoenix': Her Re-Creation in
Biography and Biofiction [Arbella Stuart (1575-1615); letter writer], 20.
Sara Read: The Gossips' Choice: Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction
with Creative Uses of Sources [Jane Sharp (active 1671) and Sarah Stone
(active 1701-1737); practitioners: midwives], 21. Michael Lackey:
Afterword, Index.