Voyage drama and gender politics, 1589-1642
Subtitle: real and imagined worlds
By: Claire Jowitt.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester, UK ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Travel in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Foreign influences; Geographical myths in literature; Exoticism in literature; Travelers in literature; Sex role in literature; Foreign countries -- In literature
Description: "Through readings of a variety of both canonical and lesser known travel dramas, this book shows how gender behaviour, sexual appetite, piracy, 'turning turk', and other forms of anti-establishment activity in colonial and remote locations should also be understood as political allegories about life in Britain. In this book travel dramas are read as carefully coded evaluations of the foreign and domestic policies of Tudor and Stuart monarchs just as much as expressions of the strength of national colonial ambitions." "This book offers a new understanding of the way gender and gender behaviour shaped geographic drama in the Renaissance. It offers a fresh account of how travel and domestic politics could be linked by writers of the time. Readers interested in travel and exploration, Renaissance history and culture, American studies, the history of colonialism, and gender and women's studies will find much of interest in this book."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.