The book examines the works of three English modernists also dealing with the iconic figure of Elizabeth Tudor. They are works focusing on the queen by Giles Lytton Strachey ("Elizabeth and Essex") and Edith Sitwell ("Fanfare for Elizabeth" and "The Queens and The Hive") and the biographical sketches written by Virginia Woolf in "Orlando" and in some short stories. The figure of the queen is seen as biographical object/subject of the biographers who write about her, investigating her gender in a new way thanks to the tools provided by Freudian studies.
Book Title
Strange spirits and even stranger bodies
Book Subtitle
L'icona di Elizabeth 1 nelle biografie di tre modernisti inglesi
Authors
Aglaia Viviani
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
110
Publication Year
2003
Copyright Information
© 2003 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/88-8453-068-7
ISBN Print
88-8453-072-5
eISBN (pdf)
88-8453-068-7
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-779-4
Series Title
Scuole di dottorato
Series ISSN
2704-6451
Series E-ISSN
2704-6060