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Title: Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective (Berg Women's Series) by Susan Bassnet, Susan Bassnett ISBN: 0-907582-98-2 Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bring It Back
Comment: My review of the book is quite simple. It should be brought back into print. Bassnett treats Elizabeth both as a woman in history, in her own right, and sets her within the larger framework of historiography. Bassnett chips away at the layers of invention that have surrounded Elizabeth and offers a refreshing and novel look at her life and times.
Rating: 3
Summary: A feminist response to the feminist perspective
Comment: Elizabeth I has had many biographers good, bad and nasty. Susan Bassnett has provided a path through a maze of publications with her clear and calm approach that both refutes the many myths about Elizabeth Tudor and prompts the reader to take her consideration and reading much further.
Bassnett's conclusions of the Mary Queen of Scots relationship are lucid and sympathetic and demonstrate how Elizabeth felt her own position as a female monarch was threatened by Mary Stuart's disatrous attempt to balance rule and personal feelings. The interpretation of Elizabeth's virginity - akin to the holy order of a Renaissance nun - was highly convincing and illuminating. The Essex relationship was the best treatment I've read of it.
This book should lead readers back to the most accessible collection of Elizabeth I's letters by G. B. Harrison. I would have given this valuable book a greater star rating if it had been longer, but would recommend it to anyone facing the pile of books on this subject for the first time.
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Title: Elizabeth I by Wallace T. MacCaffrey ISBN: 0340614552 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words by Willard R. Trask, Joan, Edward S. Creasy ISBN: 1885983085 Publisher: Turtle Point Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan, Jeffrey Richards, Christine, Christine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards ISBN: 0892552301 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Much Ado About Nothing: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography by William Shakespeare, David L. Stevenson ISBN: 0451526813 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy by Margaret L. King, Albert Rabil ISBN: 0866981241 Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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