DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Writing Mary I

History, Historiography, and Fiction

Valerie Schutte editor Jessica S Hower editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:7th May '22

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Writing Mary I cover

This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.

“This volume is highly recommended if one wishes to understand the historiography of England’s first crowned queen regnant, and the ways in which she is remembered in the present.” (Peter Stiffell, British Catholic History, Vol. 36 (3), May, 2023)

ISBN: 9783030951313

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

247 pages

1st ed. 2022