Menacing Virgins
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Menacing Virgins
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1999
Menacing Virgins written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.
Medieval Virginities
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Author : Ruth Evans
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Medieval Virginities written by Ruth Evans and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with History categories.
This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.
Bodies Speech And Reproductive Knowledge In Early Modern England
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Author : Sara D. Luttfring
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-16
Bodies Speech And Reproductive Knowledge In Early Modern England written by Sara D. Luttfring and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instead that these texts represent women exercising epistemological control over reproduction through the stories they tell about their bodies and the ways they act these stories out, combining speech and physical performance into what Luttfring calls 'bodily narratives.' The power of these bodily narratives extends beyond knowledge of individual bodies to include the ways that women’s stories about reproduction shape the patriarchal identities of fathers, husbands, and kings. In the popular print and theater of early modern England, women’s bodies, women’s speech, and in particular women’s speech about their bodies perform socially constitutive work: constructing legible narratives of lineage and inheritance; making and unmaking political alliances; shaping local economies; and defining/delimiting male socio-political authority in medical, royal, familial, judicial, and economic contexts. This book joins growing critical discussion of how female reproductive bodies were used to represent socio-political concerns and will be of interest to students and scholars working in early modern literature and culture, women’s history, and the history of medicine.
Enlightened Virginity In Eighteenth Century Literature
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Author : C. Harol
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-09-02
Enlightened Virginity In Eighteenth Century Literature written by C. Harol and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-02 with Fiction categories.
Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
Chaucerian Ecopoetics
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Author : Shawn Normandin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Chaucerian Ecopoetics written by Shawn Normandin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text combines ecocriticism with reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations of the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Monk's Tale. In stressing the importance of rhetorical nuance and literary form, Chaucerian Ecopoetics enables readers to better understand the ideological prehistory of today's environmental crisis.
Rethinking Feminism In Early Modern Studies
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Author : Ania Loomba
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Rethinking Feminism In Early Modern Studies written by Ania Loomba and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017 Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism and theory. It responds to current anxieties that feminist criticism is in a state of decline by attending to debates and differences that have emerged in light of ongoing scholarly discussions of race, affect, sexuality, and transnationalism-work that compels us continually to reassess our definitions of ’women’ and gender. Rethinking Feminism demonstrates how studies of early modern literature, history, and culture can contribute to a reimagination of feminist aims, methods, and objects of study at this historical juncture. While the scholars contributing to Rethinking Feminism have very different interests and methods, they are united in their conviction that early modern studies must be in dialogue with, and indeed contribute to, larger theoretical and political debates about gender, race, and sexuality, and to the relationship between these areas. To this end, the essays not only analyze literary texts and cultural practices to shed light on early modern ideology and politics, but also address metacritical questions of methodology and theory. Taken together, they show how a consciousness of the complexity of the past allows us to rethink the genealogies and historical stakes of current scholarly norms and debates.
Forging Chivalric Communities In Malory S Le Morte Darthur
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Author : K. Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-06-04
Forging Chivalric Communities In Malory S Le Morte Darthur written by K. Hodges and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Forging Chivalric Communities in Marlory's Morte D'Arthur shows that Malory treats chivalry not as a static institution but as a dynamic, continually evolving ideal. Le Morte D'arthur is structured to trace how communities and individuals adapt or create chivalric codes for their own purposes; in turn, codes of chivalry shape groups and their customs. Knights' loyalties are torn not just between lords and lovers but also between the different codes of chivalry and between different communities. Women, too, choose among the different roles they are asked to play as queens, counsellors, and even quasi-knights.
Misconceptions About The Middle Ages
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Author : Stephen Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-05-26
Misconceptions About The Middle Ages written by Stephen Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-26 with History categories.
Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.
The Chastity Plot
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Author : Lisabeth During
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-04-23
The Chastity Plot written by Lisabeth During and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-23 with History categories.
In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy’s double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.
