Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Norton is surprisingly useful...

Well, yet again, I referenced the anthology to answer my millions of literary questions. But even more so than that, I was able to find particular female examples that impacted literal through their unique styles. The common though between some of them that I was able to identify was them taking at least one of their pieces to acknowledge Elizabeth as a symbolic figure. For example, Amelia Lanyer's "To the Queen Her Most Excellent Majesty," Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry," and of course, Mary Wroth's "Urania." Through these three texts, readers are exposed to the symbolic nature that I am discovering is seen in architecture, painting, and literature as a means to carry on her legacy. The Jacobean era proved to a turning point for women in which they could essentially publish their literature with reliable sources. So once again, I would look at the little biographical sections about the authors that you are interested in because oddly enough, they are higher informative.

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