Revenge and gender in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature / edited by Lesel Dawson and Fiona McHardy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawson, Lesel, editor.

McHardy, Fiona, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revenge in literature--History and criticism.

Revenge in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 339 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance; PART I THE GENDERING OF REVENGE; 1 Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?; 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama; PART II F RIENDS AND FAMILY

'REVENGING HOME'; 3 Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga; 4 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea; 5 The Avenging Daughter in King Lear; 6 'Brother Unkind': Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

PART III WOMEN'S WEAPONS7 Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World; 8 'The Power of Our Mouths': Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge; 9 'Women's Weapons': Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage; PART IV WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED; 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective; 11 'She's Turned Fury': Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays; PART V LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE; 12 A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5); 13 Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure

14 What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?15 'Nursed in Blood': Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge; 16 Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2018).

ISBN:

9781474414104

1474414109

9781474414111

1474414117

Publisher Number:

99977790359

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.