The Matter of Virtue : Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

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 al...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1100-1700
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Virtue in literature.
Women in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Virtues in literature.
Poésie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Vertus dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Morale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Virtues in literature
Ethics in literature
English poetry > Early modern
Virtue in literature
Women in literature
English poetry > Middle English
Ethik > Motiv
Frau > Motiv
Frühneuenglisch
Lyrik
Mittelenglisch
Tugend > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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