Practising Shame - Female Honour in Later Medieval England

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women's bodies
2 Lessons in shame
3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege
4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame
5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless craving
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mary C. Flannery is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford

Summary

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Mary C. Flannery, Flannery Mary C.
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781526110060
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1006-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period)