Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Unchastity in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Caroline court performance and theological dispute; 2. Chastity, medical controversy and the theatre of John Ford; 3. Chastity, William Harvey's demonstrations and court ceremony; 4. Marian chastity: Caroline masques and Henrietta Maria's chaste births; 5. Protestant chastity: the language of resistance in Milton's 'A Maske' and A Maske; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Lecturer at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She has published articles in journals, including Bulletin of the Society of Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She is also the editor of Blood Matters (forthcoming).

Summary

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications, demonstrating how early Stuart thinking on chastity governed even the construction of different literary genres. It will appeal to scholars of early modern literature, theatre, political, medical and cultural history, and gender studies.

Product details

• Authors: JOHNSO BONNIE LANDE, Bonnie Lander (University of Cambridge) Johnson, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Bonnie (University of Cambridge) Lander Johnson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107570573
• ISBN: 978-1-107-57057-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History, English, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LAW / Legal History, RELIGION / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Ethics & moral philosophy, Archaeology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Legal History, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form