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Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature

Dawson Lesel McHardy, Fiona
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474454643
Publisert
2019-11-27
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
535 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Redaktør
Dawson Lesel
McHardy, Fiona

Biografisk notat

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature

Dawson Lesel McHardy, Fiona
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Dawson Lesel McHardy, Fiona
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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[T]his book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects…

- Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

this book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects...

- Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The intersection of gender trouble with the ambivalence of revenge provides a theme sufficiently broad to be of general interest, and yet sufficiently well defined to produce a coherent volume, in which intriguing connections are on display between various cultures, periods, and textual genres.

- Richard Seaford, University of Exeter,

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate. Key features: The coverage, from classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how the revenge motifs work over time with gender in mind It will appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics; medieval and renaissance literature; gender studies; revenge and revenge tragedy; the intertextual relations between ancient, medieval and early modern texts It considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genre Contributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare
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This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
Les mer
Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel Dawson The Gendering of Revenge 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison Findlay Friends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’ 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce 4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi 6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara Eaton Women’s Weapons 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo 8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy 9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe Preedy Women Transmogrified 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista 11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet Clare Lamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree 14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard 15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling 16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel Dawson Details of Contributors
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[T]his book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects…

- Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

this book is an important, and powerful, example of how interdisciplinary and cross-period studies can illuminate otherwise-overlooked points that lead to essential reconsiderations of subjects...

- Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The intersection of gender trouble with the ambivalence of revenge provides a theme sufficiently broad to be of general interest, and yet sufficiently well defined to produce a coherent volume, in which intriguing connections are on display between various cultures, periods, and textual genres.

- Richard Seaford, University of Exeter,

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate. Key features: The coverage, from classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how the revenge motifs work over time with gender in mind It will appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics; medieval and renaissance literature; gender studies; revenge and revenge tragedy; the intertextual relations between ancient, medieval and early modern texts It considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genre Contributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare
Les mer
This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
Les mer
Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel Dawson The Gendering of Revenge 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison Findlay Friends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’ 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce 4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi 6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara Eaton Women’s Weapons 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo 8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy 9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe Preedy Women Transmogrified 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista 11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet Clare Lamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree 14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard 15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling 16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel Dawson Details of Contributors
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474454643
Publisert
2019-11-27
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
535 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Redaktør
Dawson Lesel
McHardy, Fiona

Biografisk notat

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

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