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Pens and needles : women's textualities in early modern England
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- Online
- Summary
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Through an examination of the expressive arts of needlework, painting, and writing, Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and, in its final chapters, into literary texts such as Shake...
Through an examination of the expressive arts of needlework, painting, and writing, Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and, in its final chapters, into literary texts such as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
Details
- Creator
- Susan Frye
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xx, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- text file
- ISBNs
- 1283897202, 9781283897204, 9780812206982, 0812206983, 9780812242386, 0812242386, 9780812222524, 0812222520, 9781283897204
- OCLC
- ocn794700708
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-290) and index.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Spelling -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Political Designs: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick -- Chapter Two. Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans -- Chapter Three. Sewing Connections: Narratives of Agency in Women's Domestic Needlework -- Chapter Four. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline -- Chapter Five. Mary Sidney Wroth: Clothing Romance -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments