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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Holly A. Crocker

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Holly A Crocker, Holly A. Crocker
• Edition: University of pennsylvania pr
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780812251418
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5141-8
• Pages: 360
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh