Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England

by Maureen Quilligan

Book Overview

Maureen Quilligan explores the remarkable presence in the Renaissance of what she calls "incest schemes" in the books of a small number of influential women who claimed an active female authority by writing in high canonical genres and who, even more transgressively for the time, sought publication in print.

It is no accident for Quilligan that the first printed work of Elizabeth I was a translation done at age eleven of a poem by Marguerite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219058
• ISBN13: 9780812219050
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"