Queenship and the Women of Westeros
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-25040-9 (ISBN)
Zita Eva Rohr is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry (Palgrave, 2016). Lisa Benz is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012) and the co-editor with Zita Eva Rohr of Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Palgrave, 2016).
I. Queenship.- 1. A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress-Dowager of China (1835-1908).- 2. Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, "Realism," and the Case of Cersei Lannister.- 3. Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire.- II. Female Agency.- 4. "All I ever wanted was to fight for a lord I believed in. But the good lords are dead and the rest are monsters." Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the Chivalric "Other".- 5. The Peaceweavers of Winterfell.- 6. Cersei Lannister, Regal Commissions, and the Alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.- 7. "All men must die, but we are not men": Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones.- III. The Role of Advice.- 8. Daenerys the Unready: Advice and Ruling in Meereen.- 9. The Royal Minorities of Game of Thrones.- 10. Wicked Womenand the Iron Throne: The Two-Fold Tragedy of Witches as Advisors in Game of Thrones.- 11. Afterword: Playing, Winning and Losing the Game of Thrones: Reflections on Female Succession in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones in Comparison to the Premodern Era.
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.11.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Queenship and Power |
Zusatzinfo | LXXIV, 263 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 570 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | advice and counsel • Arya Stark • Beowulf • Cersei Lannister • Daenarys Targaryen • elite medieval women • Fantasy genre • female agency • female power conflicts • Gender and Power • George R.R. Martin • Margaery Tyrell • Medievalism • premodernism • queenship • succession |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-25040-7 / 3030250407 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-25040-9 / 9783030250409 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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