Engendering authority in Aemilia Lanyer's

McBride, Kari Boyd.

dc.contributor.author	McBride, Kari Boyd.
dc.creator	McBride, Kari Boyd.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-31T18:16:51Z
dc.date.available	2011-10-31T18:16:51Z
dc.date.issued	1994	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186694
dc.description.abstract	Aemilia Lanyer subverted traditional understandings of poetic subjectivity and altered received generic forms in order to construct herself as poet in a culture that reserved that vocation to men. She did so by creating in her poems a tradition of female poetic subjectivity through the imaginative construction of a community of empowered women. Lanyer fashioned herself a poet within this community and claimed a premier place by virtue of her alliance with the paradoxically humbled yet omnipotent Christ. She announced her poetic vocation through a remaking of the initiatory pastoral poem, transforming the position of women in the orphic genres of lament and epithalamium. In the country house poem, as well, Lanyer altered generic material that served to objectify and silence women in classical precedents and seventeenth-century models. (An appendix discusses Lanyer's use of the Geneva Bible and material from the Book of Common Prayer.)
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	The University of Arizona.	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.	en_US
dc.subject	Women's studies.	en_US
dc.title	Engendering authority in Aemilia Lanyer's "Salve deus rex judaeorum".	en_US
dc.type	text	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic)	en_US
dc.contributor.chair	Ulreich, John C., Jr.	en_US
dc.identifier.oclc	703168460	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Arizona	en_US
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Brown, Meg Lota	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Miller, Naomi	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Schneidau, Herbert N.	en_US
dc.identifier.proquest	9426325	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	English	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Graduate College	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Ph.D.	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2018-08-23T15:51:24Z
html.description.abstract	Aemilia Lanyer subverted traditional understandings of poetic subjectivity and altered received generic forms in order to construct herself as poet in a culture that reserved that vocation to men. She did so by creating in her poems a tradition of female poetic subjectivity through the imaginative construction of a community of empowered women. Lanyer fashioned herself a poet within this community and claimed a premier place by virtue of her alliance with the paradoxically humbled yet omnipotent Christ. She announced her poetic vocation through a remaking of the initiatory pastoral poem, transforming the position of women in the orphic genres of lament and epithalamium. In the country house poem, as well, Lanyer altered generic material that served to objectify and silence women in classical precedents and seventeenth-century models. (An appendix discusses Lanyer's use of the Geneva Bible and material from the Book of Common Prayer.)