Mary C. Flannery

Practising shame

Female honour in later medieval England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781526110077
• ISBN-10: 1526110075
• Artikelnr.: 61112975

Autorenporträt

Mary C. Flannery is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellow at the University of Bern

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women's bodies 2
Lessons in shame 3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege 4 Death or
dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame 5 Shamefast Hoccleve and
shameless craving Afterword Bibliography Index