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Gender matters : discourses of violence in early modern literature and the arts /
Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
©2014.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts; 1. Women Warriors, Fact and Fiction; The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it's time to call on a woman for help.; The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Nō Plays; 2. Violent Women, Violated Men; Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer's The Death of Orpheus; The Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art.
- For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violencefrom Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de NavarreFraming Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron; 3. Violence and the Gendered Body Politic; Tears of the Muses:1649 and the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy; Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Château:Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion; The Law Against Lovers:Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England; 4. Gender in Print; One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau's Pegme (1560).
- Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on theEarly Modern English StageRomancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel's Deß Teutschen Carls (1690) and Deß Engelländischen Eduards (1691); 5. Gender and Violence on the Stage; Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera:the Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti ofFrancesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault; Gismond of Salern and the Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama; ""Drabs of State vext"": Violent Female Masquers inThomas Middleton's Women Beware Women; 6. Virtue and Violence.
- Death, Femininity, and the Art of Painting in Frans Francken'sThe Painter's StudioMasculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury; The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain; Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Otherin the Story of Inkle and Yarico; Notes on Contributors.