The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Dec 5, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages

With a new introduction that situates the original edition within the emerging genre of cultural biography, the second edition of The Heart and Stomach of a King explores the myriad ways Queen Elizabeth I represented herself as a public figure and how her subjects represented and responded to her.

 

Contents

introduction
1
The official courtships of the Queen
39
wanton and whore
66
The return of the King
91
Elizabeth as King and Queen
121
dreaming the Queen
149
notes
173
bibliography
215
index
235
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Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John.

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