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Title: Virtuous Necessity : Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
Description: 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.
Authors: Jessica Murphy
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Social values in literature, Virtue in literature, Didactic literature, English--History and criticism, Women in literature, Conduct of life in literature, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Women--England--Conduct of life, Women and literature--England--History
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies
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