Grief and gender, 700-1700 / edited by Jennifer C. Vaught with Lynne Dickson Bruckner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaught, Jennifer C.

Bruckner, Lynne Dickson

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Grief in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This collection is the first to examine the relation of grief and gender from 700 to 1700 in the literature and visual arts of England, France, Italy, and Germany. Leading authorities in the fields of literature and art history contribute original essays that consider this relationship from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis, historicism, feminism, postcolonialism, and intertextuality. Ultimately, these essays on Anglo-Saxon, late medieval, and Renaissance texts illustrate how literary, historical, and cultural factors shaped early modern representations of grief and gender.

Contents:

Part I Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German Laments

1. From Kinship to Kingship: Mourning, Gender, and Anglo-Saxon Community / Patricia Clare Ingham 17

2. Death Rituals and Manhood in the Middle High German Poems The Lament, Johannes von Tepl's The Plowman, and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring / Albrecht Classen 33

Part II Medieval Tears and Trauma

3. Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale / M. C. Bodden 51

4. Grief in Avalon: Sir Palomydes' Psychic Pain / Bonnie Wheeler 65

Part III Male, Female, and Cross-Gendered Mourning Rituals in Renaissance Italy and France

5. Augustine's Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany / Allison Levy 81

6. Petrarch's "Ladies" and Sappho's "Sirens": Fetishism and Mourning in Renaissance Women's Poetry / Juliana Schiesari 95

7. Family Grief: Mourning and Gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Les Prisons / Anne Lake Prescott 105

Part IV Elizabethan Loss and Regeneration

8. Grief and Creativity in Spenser's Daphnaida / Donald Cheney 123

9. Mother's Sorrow, Mother's Joy: Mourning Birth in Edmund Spenser's Garden of Adonis / Theresa M. Krier 133

10. Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Forms of Desire / Judith H. Anderson 149

Part V Gendered Performances of Affect in Shakespeare

11. Tears and Masculinity in the History Play: Shakespeare's Henry VI / Martha A. Kurtz 163

12. Hamlet and the Genders of Grief / Marshall Grossman 177

Part VI The Family, Absence, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century

13. "I might againe have been the Sepulcure": Paternal and Maternal Mourning in Early Modern England / Patricia Phillippy 197

14. "Mine Own Breaking": Resistance, Gender, and Temporality in Seventeenth-Century English Elegies and Jonson's "Eupheme" / W. Scott Howard 215

Part VII Elegies and Rites of Passage

Then and Now

15. For Tommy: Commencement Address, June 1976 / Harry Berger, Jr. 233

16. Afterword: Only a Rite / David Lee Miller 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page p249]-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312293828

031229381X

OCLC:

52312133

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