Revival, Romance, and Empire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania
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Revival, Romance, and Empire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania
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Cet article se concentre sur la deuxième partie de l’Uranie de Lady Mary Wroth et explore la façon dont Wroth se réapproprie le genre médiéval de la romance des croisades afin d’intégrer les nouveaux contacts entre l’Orient et l’Angleterre qui se multipliaient en son temps, tout en faisant renaître le fantasme nostalgique d’un empire chrétien unifié en Europe. Cet article explique comment Wroth s’inspire d’authentiques couples anglo-orientaux, tels que celui de l’ambassadeur Robert Sherley et la Circassienne Teresa Sampsonia, afin d’imaginer un empire chrétien blanc et universel qui s’étendrait jusqu’à la Perse et l’Asie centrale, à travers les unions courtoises de princesses orientales et de chevaliers occidentaux.
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This article focuses on the second volume of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania and sheds light on Wroth’s appropriation of the medieval mode of the Crusader romance to acknowledge increasing contacts with the East at the time of her writing, while reviving the nostalgic ideal of a united Christian empire. This article demonstrates how Wroth drew inspiration from real-life Anglo-Eastern unions, such as the one between Robert Sherley and his wife Teresa Sampsonia, to sustain her imperialist fantasy of the Persian Empire being incorporated into a white, unified Christendom, mainly through courtly marriages between Eastern princesses and Western knights.
Creator
Alazraki, Mathilde
Subject
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Mary Wroth
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Perse
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impérialisme
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Orient
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romance
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Mary Wroth
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Persia
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imperialism
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Orient
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romance
Publisher
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII
Date
2021-12-22
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
article
Identifier
urn:doi:10.4000/1718.7499
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/7499
Language
en
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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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