Ruling Women, Volume 2

Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama

Derval Conroy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56842-7 (ISBN)

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Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy’s work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.

Derval Conroy is Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures at University College Dublin, Ireland.

1. The Power and the Fury, or the Politics of Representation in Drama
2. The Drama of Gender Struggle: Androgyny and Female Government
3. Dramatizing the Female Prince: Virtue, Statecraft and Virginal Wives

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	Queenship and Power
Zusatzinfo	IX, 214 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-137-56842-9 / 1137568429
ISBN-13	978-1-137-56842-7 / 9781137568427
Zustand	Neuware