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    Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England

    Creating Their Own Meanings

    Akiko Kusunoki in Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (2015)

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    Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England

    As King James’s reign continued, people’s disappointment with the monarch increased, especially because of his peace-oriented policy towards foreign countries, his favouritism for his Scottish subjects and his...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Conclusion

    The growing recognition of women’s desire for self-expression and self-actualisation in Jacobean England was closely related to many facets of culture in the English Renaissance. This book has examined its pro...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Introduction: Concepts of Womanhood in Early Modern England

    We often hear nowadays that feminism is a thing of the past and is no longer relevant. The limitations of this typically Western view become obvious once we turn our attention to the current situations of wome...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England

    Whereas the orthodox concept of a good woman permeated Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, a sceptical tone, which emerged around 1600, marks the playwrights’ handling of female characters, mostly in the plays wri...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Lady Mary Wroth and Ideologies of Marriage in Late Jacobean England

    Mary Wroth is quite different from Elizabeth Cary in her way of representing a woman’s sense of self. In all her works—the pastoral comedy Love’s Victory, her published prose romance, The Countess of Montgomery’s...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Women and Publishing Their Works in the Late Jacobean Years

    During the English Renaissance, male authors of high social rank tended to refrain from publishing their works due to an informal social code of the ‘Stigma of Print’.1 Female writers of the aristocracy had to ov...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)

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    Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: The Duchess of Malfi and The Tragedy of Mariam

    The depressing norms for women within married life, as demonstrated in Thomas Overbury’s A Wife, paradoxically seemed to offer women the opportunity to construct their sense of selfhood. Faced with the images of ...

    Akiko Kusunoki in Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England (2015)