Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse: Tradition, Translation, and Transcription

Rebecca Quoss-Moore

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2023

Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse

Tradition, Translation, and Transcription

Rebecca Quoss-Moore

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551576

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About this book

Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understanding this system as an extensive network of production and reception in which women took on many roles allows for new readings of Henrician verse that emphasize the interpretive range available to contemporary reading and writing communities. This restoration demasculinizes our approach to Henrician verse not only through a more equitable consideration of gender’s functions in that social world, but also in de-emphasizing individualized self-fashioning or authorial intent in favor of an engagement with communal production and shared sociopolitical engagement. The creation in this system is not of a code, but of systems for coding and recognizing position-taking. These communal systems offer a site for the intersection of reader and writer, of transcriber and composer, and of King and courtier in a space that questions, creates, and troubles power in the Henrician court.

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Quoss-Moore Rebecca :

Rebecca M. Quoss-Moore, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Early Modern British Literature at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her research focuses on gender in early modern literature and on demasculinizing literary historiographies. Her work has appeared in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Appositions, and The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. Early Verse Position-Taking in the Henrician Court Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Traditions of Resistance and Verse Position-Taking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3. Translation and the Position-Taking Verse Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
4. Men’s and Women’s Approaches to Translation and Authority in the Late Henrician Court Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Transcription as Translation: Writing the Language of Manuscript Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
6. Resistance and Unity in the Douglas- Howard Exchange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 254
Keywords: early modern women's writing; Henry VIII; Margaret Douglas; early modern poetry

eBook

Published: August 7, 2023
ISBN: 9789048551576