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Patricia Phillippy - Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Av Patricia Phillippy

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In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. By examining early modern funerary, liturgical and lamentational practices, as well as diaries, poems and plays, she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy emphasises the period's textual and cultural constructions of male and female subjects as predicated upon gendered approaches to death. She argues that while feminine grief is condemned as immoderately emotional by male reformers, the same characteristic that opens women's mourning to censure enable its use as a means of empowering women's speech. Phillippy calls on a wide range of published and archival material that date from the Reformation to well into the seventeenth century, providing a study that will appeal to cultural as well as literary historians.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-01-14
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 480 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 324
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521126182
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Patricia Phillippy is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Love's Remedies: Recantation and Renaissance Lyric Poetry (1995).

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"Phillippy illuminates the complexity of interacting forces contributing both to the development of gendered norms and to the opportunities they could provide to early modern women. This is a thoughtful, creative study...Phillippy is impressive in her historicist approach to her chosen texts...Her book's value...also lies in its eclecticism. It will surely stimulate future scholarship following different trajectories. This complex, careful, and wide-ranging work will appeal to a broad, if advanced audience, while also serving as a corrective to more simplistic explorations of the relationship between gendered norms, historical context, and cultural expression." Megan L. Hickerson, King's College, London, Canadian Journal of History

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