The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627

By Kavita Mudan Finn

Book Overview

Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century English 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230392989
• ISBN13: 9780230392984
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"