Elizabeth I in Writing Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Montini, Donatella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Plescia, Iolanda (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Literature-History and criticism.; Sociology.; World politics.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Literary History.; Gender Studies.; Political History.

This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as an accomplished writer in her own right as well as the subject of authors who celebrated her. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth's translations, let...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• I. Elizabeth as Author
• 2. The Young Princess Elizabeth, Neo-Latin and the Power of the Written Word
• 3. Ethics from the Classroom: Elizabeth I's translation of Cicero's Pro Marcello
• 4. Styling Power: A corpus-linguistic approach to the correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I
• 5. "Beholde me thy handmaid": The pragmatics and politics of Queen Elizabeth's prayers
• 6. Elizabeth I as Poet: Some notes on "Monsierur's departure" and John Dowland's "Now O now I needs must part"
• II. Elizabeth Authored
• 7. A Critical Edition and Discussion of SP 70/2 f.94: A letter and two sonnets by Celio Magno to Queen Elizabeth I
• 8. "La Comediante Politica": On Gregorio Leti's 1693 Life of Queen Elizabeth I
• 9. Multilingualism at the Tudor Court: Henry, Elizabeth and the love letter genre
• III. The Gift of Language, the Language of the Gift
• 10. What Elizabeth Knew. Language as Mirror and Gift
• 11. Queen Elizabeth and the Power and Language of the Gift.