Author: Jessica Murphy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 047212109X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women—silence, chastity, and obedience—to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period—from the plays of Shakespeare to a conduct manual written for a princess to letters from a wife to her husband—as well as contemporary gender theory and philosophy, she uncovers the multiple meanings of behavioral expectations for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women. Through her renegotiation of cultural ideals as presented in both literary and nonliterary texts of early modern England, Murphy presents models for “acceptable” women’s conduct that lie outside of the rigid prescriptions of the time. Virtuous Necessity will appeal to readers interested in early modern English literature, including canonical authors such as Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, as well as their female contemporaries such as Amelia Lanyer and Elizabeth Cary. It will also appeal to scholars of conduct literature; of early modern drama, popular literature, poetry, and prose; of women’s history; and of gender theory.
Author: Lori Branch
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1932792112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Book of the Year Award for the Conference on Christianity and Literature.--Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College "CHOICE"
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 934
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kim M. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1135304769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions.