Matter of Virtue - Women''s Ethical Action From Chaucer to Shakespeare

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

List of contents

Introduction. Virtues That Matter
PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES
Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate
Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare
PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE
Chapter 3. Virtue's Grace: Custance and Other Daughters
Chapter 4. Virtue's Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser
PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES
Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Conclusion. Legends of Good Women
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

About the author

Holly A. Crocker

Summary

In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

Product details

• Authors: Holly A Crocker, Holly A. Crocker
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780812251418
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5141-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh