Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvLesel Dawson,Fiona McHardy,Fiona Mchardy

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Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literatureThis 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 mindIt 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 textsIt considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genreContributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-27
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474454643

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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).

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel DawsonThe Gendering of Revenge1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?, Edith Hall2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison FindlayFriends and Family: ‘Revenging Home’3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea, Kathrin Winter5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi6. ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara EatonWomen’s Weapons7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia Matthews and Irene Salvo8. ‘The Power of our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona McHardy9. ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage, Chloe PreedyWomen Transmogrified10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective, Alessandra Abbattista11. ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet ClareLamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5), Andreas N. Michalopoulos13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie Baden-Danetree14. What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard15. ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, Rebecca Yearling16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lesel DawsonDetails of Contributors

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