The last Plantagenet consorts
Subtitle: gender, genre, and historiography, 1440-1627
By: Kavita Mudan Finn
Series: Queenship and power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780230392984
Subjects: Historiography; Politics and government; English literature; Politics and literature; HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century; Queens in literature; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; History and criticism; HISTORY / Medieval; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century; English Political poetry; Queens; Biography; History
Description: "Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrications themselves as narratives, and as reflections of questions and anxieties that haunted their writers. By focusing on the relationship between gender and genre and the way embedded literary narratives echo across texts as disparate as chronicles, parliamentary proceedings, diplomatic correspondence, ballads, poetry, and drama, this study reveals hitherto unexplored tensions within these texts, generated by embedded narratives and their implications"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.