The Face of Queenship : Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I Hardback
by A. Riehl
Part of the Queenship and Power series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 14 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 248 p. 14 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:21/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780230614956
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 14 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 248 p. 14 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:21/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230614956
