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Author Cunningham, Karen

Title Imaginary betrayals : subjectivity and the discourses of treason in early Modern England / Karen Cunningham
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Series The Middle Ages series
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "Fugitive Forms": Imagining the Realm -- 2. Female Fidelities on Trial -- 3. Masculinity, Aflliation, and Rootlessness -- 4. Secrecy and the Epistolary Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary "The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham explores provide important resources for those interested in the early modern period."--Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Sex role in literature.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Law in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
Treason in literature.
Trials (Treason) -- England -- History -- 16th century
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Subjectivity in literature.
Law and literature -- History -- 16th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Betrayal in literature
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Law and literature
Law in literature
Sex role in literature
Subjectivity in literature
Treason in literature
Trials (Treason)
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204278
0812204271