Background
Constance Jordan was born on June 27, 1935, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Robert Anson Jordan and Constance Billings Hand.
New York City, New York, United States
In 1959 Constance Jordon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Barnard College.
London, England, United Kingdom
In 1968 Constance Jordan obtained a Master of Philosophy from the University London.
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
In 1976 Constance Jordon received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Yale University.
(Pulci II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance ...)
Pulci II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance epic by Luigi Pulci, in the context of contemporary Florentine polities. This volume also analyzes the poem's narrative structure and demonstrates the poet's understanding of issues that were to become vital to Florentine historiography a generation later.
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1986
(Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonficti...)
Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonfiction, Jordan asserts that feminism as a mode of thought emerged as early as the fifteenth century in Italy, and that the main arguments for the social equality of the sexes were common in the sixteenth century. Renaissance feminism, she maintains, was a feature of a broadly revisionist movement that regarded the medieval model of creation as static and hierarchical and favored a model that was dynamic and relational. Jordan examines pro-woman arguments found in dozens of pan-European texts in the light of present-day notions of authority and subordination, particularly resistance theory, in an attempt to link gender issues to larger contemporary theoretical and institutional questions.
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1990
(Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his ro...)
Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his romances, contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan reveals Shakespeare's investment in the idea that a head of state should be responsive to law, and not be governed by his unbridled will. Conflicts within royal courts which occur in the romances show wives, daughters, and servants resisting tyrannical husbands, fathers, masters, and monarchs by relying on the authority of conscience. These loyal subjects demonstrated to Shakespeare's diverse audiences that the vitality of the body politic, its dynastic future, and its material productivity depend on a cooperative union of ruler and subject. Drawing on representations of servitude and slavery in the humanist and political literature of the period, Jordan shows that Shakespeare's abusive rulers suffer as much as they impose on their subjects. Shakespeare's Monarchies recognizes the romances as politically inflected texts and confirms Shakespeare's involvement in the public discourse of the period.
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1997
(This book represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in ...)
This book represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world.
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2004
(Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays...)
Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge, and royal prerogative; these studies reveal the problems confronting early modern English men and women.
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2007
(Constance Jordan offers a unique sampling of the correspo...)
Constance Jordan offers a unique sampling of the correspondence between Hand and a stellar array of intellectual and legal giants, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Berenson, and many other prominent political and philosophical thinkers. The letters--many of which have never been published before--cover almost half a century, often taking the form of brief essays on current events, usually seen through the prism of their historical moment. They reflect Hand's engagement with the issues of the day, ranging from the aftermath of World War I and the League of Nations, the effects of the Depression in the United States, the rise of fascism and the outbreak World War II, McCarthyism, and the Supreme Court's decisions on segregation, among many other topics. Equally important, the letters showcase decades of penetrating and original thought on the major themes of American jurisprudence, particularly key interpretations of the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and will thus be invaluable to those interested in legal issues. Most of these letters have never before been published, making this collection a priceless window into the mind and life of one of the giants of American law.
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2012
Constance Jordan was born on June 27, 1935, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Robert Anson Jordan and Constance Billings Hand.
In 1959 Constance Jordon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Barnard College. In 1968 she obtained a Master of Philosophy from the University London. In 1976 Jordon received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Yale University.
Constance Jordan was a visiting lecturer in English at the Yale University in 1974 and 1977. She was a lecturer in comparative literature at the Bryn Mawr College from 1977 to 1978. Jordand worked as an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the Columbia University from 1978 to 1987. She was a visiting associate professor of English at the Northwestern University from 1987 to 1988. Gordan was an associate professor at the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) from 1988 to 1992 and was appointed a professor of English in 1993.
In 1992 Gordan was an associate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California. She was a lecturer at colleges and universities, including Wolfson and Keble Colleges, Oxford, University of California, Harvard University, University of Maryland, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Johns Hopkins University, California Institute of Technology, University of Colorado, and Princeton University.
(Constance Jordan offers a unique sampling of the correspo...)
2012(Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonficti...)
1990(This book represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in ...)
2004(Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays...)
2007(Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his ro...)
1997(Pulci II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance ...)
1986Constance Jordan is a member of the International Shakespeare Association, of the Modern Language Association of America, of the Renaissance Society of America, and of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.
On June 27, 1986, Constance Jordan married Edward S. Golub.