Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective

by Susan Bassnett

Book Overview

Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the foundations for its future empire. She presided over a country undergoing a cultural renaissance previously unimagined. By the time of her death at the age of seventy in 1603, she was being heralded as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907582982
• ISBN13: 9780907582984
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Bring It Back

My review of the book is quite simple. It should be brought back into print. Bassnett treats Elizabeth both as a woman in history, in her own right, and sets her within the larger framework of historiography. Bassnett chips away at the layers of invention that have surrounded Elizabeth and offers a refreshing and novel look at her life and times.