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Summary:The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the portrayals of the queen s face register her contemporaries hopes, fears, hatreds, mockeries, rivalries, and awe. In its application of theories of the meaning of the face and its exploration of the early modern representation and interpretation of faces, this study argues that the face was seen as a rhetorical tool and that Elizabeth was a master of using her face to persuade, threaten, or comfort her subjects.
Physical Description:xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index.
ISBN:9780230614956
0230614957
Author Notes:Anna Riehl is an Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research has been sponsored by American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, English-Speaking Union Scholarship, the University Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Summer Research Grant at Auburn University. Her essays on Renaissance literature and culture have appeared in English Literary Renaissance and in an essay collection, Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, edited by Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz. She is the co-editor, with Thomas Betteridge, of an essay collection, Tudor Court Culture.