JOURNAL ARTICLE

Rereading Elizabeth I as Europa.

  • Published In: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2023, v. 138, n. 2. P. 321 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: NOCENTELLI, CARMEN 3 of 3

Abstract

Albeit widely cited, the 1598 engraving known as Elizabeth I as Europa is something of amystery: little to nothing is known of its authorship or of the circumstances of its production and circulation. Tracing the print's origins to one of Europe's earliest news periodicals, I argue that Elizabeth I as Europa is not about Elizabeth but about Europa--which is to say, about the construction of an earlymodern public that could understand itself as European. The print participated in this construction in two interrelated ways: as an intervention in Europa Regina cartography, it thematized Europe as a shared (if highly contested) space of discourse that could cut across national, linguistic, and confessional differences; as a piece of transnational reportage meant for broadscale circulation, it helped conjure up the public on which that space of discourse depended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 2023/03, Vol. 138, Issue 2, p321
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0030-8129
  • DOI:10.1632/s0030812923000172
  • Accession Number:163754588
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