Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts.King, Sigrid, ed. Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 213.) Tempe: Arizona Center Arizona Center is a shopping center and office complex located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona Center was designed by the Rouse Company (on its festival marketplace model, which worked to great success in other cities) and opened in the fall of 1990 to great fanfare for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xix + 276 pp. index. $30. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-86698-255-8. A collection of essays in honor of Professor Josephine A. Roberts, Pilgrimage of Love is divided into three sections reflecting the interpretative approaches Roberts most commonly employed. The essays within section 1, on historical contexts, examine "connections between the literary text and the world in which it is produced"; section 2 explores "some of the bibliographical problems inherent in the study and publication of Shakespeare's texts"; and the third section, on gender issues, studies "how literary texts represent women, create a female persona and female voice, explore women's perspectives on marriage, construct the female self, and illustrate gender roles." Essays include: Elaine Beilin, "Winning 'the harts of the people': The Role of the Political Subject in the Urania Urania (y  rā`nēə): see Aphrodite; Muses. Urania muse of astrology. [Gk. Myth. "; Margaret J. M. Ezell, "The Politics of the Past: Restoration Women Writers on Women Reading History"; Margaret P. Hannay, "The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian Poet"; Mary Ellen Lamb, "Margaret Hoby's Diary: Women's Reading P ractices and the Gendering of the Reformation Subject"; Betty S. Travitsky, "Relations of Power, Relations to Power, and Power(ful) Relations: Mary Fage, Robert Fage, and Fames Roule"; W. Speed Hill, "Where are the Bibliographers of Yesteryear yes·ter·year n. 1. The year before the present year. 2. Time past; yore. yes ?"; Arthur F. Kinney, "Text, Context, and Authorship of The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore"; Mary Villeponteaux, "Poetry's Birth: The Maternal Subtext sub·text n. 1. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text. 2. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance. of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus"; Anne Shaver, "Agency and Marriage in the Fictions of Lady Mary Wroth Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1652) was an English poet of the Renaissance. A member of a distinguished English family, Wroth was among the first female British writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. Life Wroth was born in 1587 to Barbara Gamage and Robert Sidney. and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle"; Suzanne Gossett, "Resistant Mothers and Hidden Children"; Paula Harms Payne, "Finding a Poetic Voice of Her Own: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus"; Polly S. Fields, "Charlotte Charke and the Liminality of Bi-Genderings: A Study of Her Canonical Works"; Gary Wallet, "Crossing Over: Shakespeare, Wroth wroth adj. Wrathful; angry. [Middle English, from Old English wr  th; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. , and the Stories of our Lives."
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