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© 2021 Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

© 2021 Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World 2
  3. Table of Contents 5
  4. List of Figures 9
  5. Acknowledgments 11
  6. 1. Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age 13
  7. Section I: Fictionalizing Biography
  8. 2. Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint 23
  9. 3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman : Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix 33
  10. 4. An Interview with Dominic Smith , Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century 49
  11. 5. Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction 57
  12. 6. Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations , and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish 71
  13. Section II: Materializing Authorship
  14. 7. Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography 87
  15. 8. The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart 101
  16. 9. “Very Secret Kept”: Facts and Re- Creation in Margaret Hannay’s Biographies of Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth 115
  17. 10. Imagining Shakespeare’s Sisters : Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth 129
  18. 11. Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media 141
  19. Section III: Performing Gender
  20. 12. Reclaiming Her Time : Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century 157
  21. 13. Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery 165
  22. 14. Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors 179
  23. 15. Jesusa Rodríguez’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Reflections on an Opaque Body 187
  24. Section IV: Authoring Identity
  25. 16. From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater : Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture 203
  26. 17. The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola 219
  27. 18. “I am Artemisia”: Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough’s Blood Water Paint 235
  28. 19. The Lady Arbella Stuart, a “Rare Phoenix” : Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction 249
  29. 20. The Gossips’ Choice : Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources 263
  30. 21. Afterword 271
  31. Index 275
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World 2
  3. Table of Contents 5
  4. List of Figures 9
  5. Acknowledgments 11
  6. 1. Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age 13
  7. Section I: Fictionalizing Biography
  8. 2. Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint 23
  9. 3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman : Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix 33
  10. 4. An Interview with Dominic Smith , Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century 49
  11. 5. Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction 57
  12. 6. Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations , and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish 71
  13. Section II: Materializing Authorship
  14. 7. Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography 87
  15. 8. The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart 101
  16. 9. “Very Secret Kept”: Facts and Re- Creation in Margaret Hannay’s Biographies of Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth 115
  17. 10. Imagining Shakespeare’s Sisters : Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth 129
  18. 11. Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media 141
  19. Section III: Performing Gender
  20. 12. Reclaiming Her Time : Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century 157
  21. 13. Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery 165
  22. 14. Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors 179
  23. 15. Jesusa Rodríguez’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Reflections on an Opaque Body 187
  24. Section IV: Authoring Identity
  25. 16. From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater : Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture 203
  26. 17. The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola 219
  27. 18. “I am Artemisia”: Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough’s Blood Water Paint 235
  28. 19. The Lady Arbella Stuart, a “Rare Phoenix” : Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction 249
  29. 20. The Gossips’ Choice : Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources 263
  30. 21. Afterword 271
  31. Index 275
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