Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

AvPatricia 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-07-04
Mått160 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor324
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521814898

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Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. A map of death; Part I. Disposing of the Body: 2. The body of history: embalming and historiography in Shakespeare's Henry VIII; 3. Humility and stoutness: the lives an deaths of Christian women; 4. London's mourning garment: maternity, mourning and succession in Shakespeare's Richard III; Part II. Sisters of Magdalene: 5. 'I might againe have been the sepulcure': maternal mourning and the encrypted corpse; 6. 'Quod licuit feci': Elizabeth Russell and the power of mourning; 7. The mat(t)er of death: the defense of Eve and the female Ars Morendi; Codicil: 'A web of blacke'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"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