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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bassnett, Susan. Elizabeth I. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Berg ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1988 (OCoLC)576114937 |
| Named Person: | Elizabeth, Queen of England; Élisabeth, reine d'Angleterre; Königin I ) Elisabeth (England |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Bassnett |
| ISBN: | 0854961674 9780854961672 |
| OCLC Number: | 17354556 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 139 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Series Title: | Berg women's series. |
| Responsibility: | Susan Bassnett. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Publisher description: Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the foundations for its future empire. She presided over a country undergoing a cultural renaissance previously unimagined. By the time of her death at the age of seventy in 1603, she was being heralded as rival to the Virgin Mary, as a second Queen of Earth and Heaven, as a woman more than mortal women. She has provided subject-matter for innumerable books: seventy biographies have appeared since 1890 and it is impossible to list the enormous number of historical novels based on some part of her life. However, among the many books written about Elizabeth I there is none like this one: Bassnett looks at the life and achievements of Elizabeth from a twentieth-century feminist perspective and considers her as writer, politician, scholar and woman. As a result she succeeds in presenting a more rounded portrait of a figure who has fascinated successive generations but whose private and public life has frequently been the subject of fantasy and speculation.
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- Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603.
- Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
- Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Feminism -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Great Britain -- Queens -- Biography.
- Élisabeth -- Ire, -- reine d'Angleterre, -- 1533-1603.
- Féminisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
- Reines -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1558-1603 (Élisabeth Ire)
- Koninginnen (vorstinnen)
- Elisabeth (England, Königin, I.)
- Biographie
- England -- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603

