Sibling relations and gender in the early modern world
Subtitle: sisters, brothers and others
By: edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh.
Contributors: Miller, Naomi J., 1960-; Yavneh, Naomi.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Europe -- History.; Brothers and sisters in literature.
Table of contents: title: Making a saint out of a sibling / Susan Laningham; title: Recusant sisters: English catholic women and the bonds of learning / Kari Boyd McBride; title: Families, convents, music: the power of sisterhood / Craig A. Monson; title: If these walls could talk / Merry Wiesner Hanks; title: Resisting Henri IV: Catherine de Bourbon and her brother / Jane Couchman; title: Sister-subject/sister-queen: Elizabeth I among her siblings / Carole Levin; title: Mary Sidney's other brothers / Margaret P. Hannay; title: The politics of private discourse: familial relations in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Sheila Cavanaugh; title: When the mirror lies: sisterhood reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro / Valeria Finucci; title: Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli: musicians and sororal relations in later sixteenth century Venice / Rebecca Edwards; title: The shame of siblings in David and Bethsabe / Stephen Guy-Bray; title: Sibling bonds and bondage in (and beyond) Shakespeare's The Tempest / Naomi J. Miller; title: Playing the game: sisterly relations in Sofonisba Anguissola's The Chess Game / Naomi Yavneh; title: "My deare sister": sainted sisterhood in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson; title: Sisterly feelings in Cavendish and Brackley's drama / Alison Findlay; title: "Thy passionately loving sister and faithfull friend": Anne Dormer's letters to her sister Lady Trumbull / Sara Mendelson and Mary O'Connor; title: Siblings, publications, and the transmission of memory: Johann Albert Hinrich and Elise Reimarus / Almut Spalding; title: Thicker than blood: l'oltr'altra / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh.