‘Dancing through the Minefield’: Canon Reinstatement Strategies for Women Authors

• Authors: Reghina Dascăl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores the limiting and detrimental effects of biographical criticism and exceptionalism in the efforts of reinstating women authors into the Renaissance canon, by looking into the literary merits of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry and The History of The Life, Reign and Death of Edward II. Whereas the conflation of biography and fiction is a successful recipe for canonization and for the production of feminist icons, it renders the text impotent because of its resulting inability to compete with or to be seen in correlation and interplay with other contemporary texts.

Keywords

EN

biographical criticism; canonical reinstatement; Jacobean drama; Stuart patriarchy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 48-67

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-29

Contributors

author

Reghina Dascăl

• West University of Timișoara, 4, Vasile Pârvan Blvd, 300223, Timișoara, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2016-0004