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oapen-20.500.12657-532432022-03-10T08:56:29Z Authorizing Early Modern European Women Fitzmaurice, James Miller, Naomi Steen, Sara Jayne Early Modern Women Historical Women Biofiction Biography Renaissance Women bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them. 2022-03-04T15:56:46Z 2022-03-04T15:56:46Z 2022 book ONIX_20220304_9789048552900_5 9789048552900 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53243 eng Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048552900.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463727143 10.5117/9789463727143 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a Knowledge Unlatched 9789048552900 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Amsterdam University Press 270 7258 open access
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The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.
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