„Nepostižitelný prostor ženské vůle“: poetické svědectví Lady Mary Wroth

• Authors: Kastnerová Martina

Title variants

EN

"Indistinguished space of woman's will": The poetic testament of lady Mary Wroth

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The “indistinguished space” helps to develop the literary representation of women in Elizabethan and Jacobean culture, forming an integral part of female authorship during this period. However, instead of taking aim at the male poetic tradition, the genius of Wroth is to absorb it and use it for her own ends. Reclaiming the virtues of the woman through constancy, she upends the conventional views of the woman. Thus, Wroth strengthens the autonomy of the woman by allowing her to make the decision to accept a role subordinate to man. Wroth’s narrative foregrounds the constancy of love as personified in the character of Pamphilia. “This testament of me”, as Pamphilia puts it, becomes a story of her own journey of finding solace through consolation, sharing and communication with other women, an act of self-fashioning that reasserts female power through the fulfilment of both real and fictional destinies.

Keywords

CS

Lady Mary Wroth; literární kultura; alžbětinská renesance; jakobínský dvůr; William Herbert, hrabě z Pembroke; Philip Sidney

EN

Lady Mary Wroth; Literary Culture; Elizabethan Renaissance Jacobean Court; William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke; Philip Sidney

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 29-60

Contributors

author

Kastnerová Martina

• Západočeská univerzita v Plzni