Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dawson, Lesel; Mchardy, Fiona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literatureThis collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate. Key features:The coverage, from classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how the revenge motifs work over time with gender in mindIt will appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics; medieval and renaissance literature; gender studies; revenge and revenge tragedy; the intertextual relations between ancient, medieval and early modern textsIt considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genreContributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414111
• Artikelnr.: 72413048

Autorenporträt

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication
Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance, Lesel
Dawson
The Gendering of Revenge
1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?,
Edith Hall
2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama, Alison Findlay
Friends and Family: 'Revenging Home'
3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga, Ian Felce
4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's
Medea, Kathrin Winter
5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear, Marguerite Tassi
6. 'Brother Unkind': Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Sara
Eaton
Women's Weapons
7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World, Lydia
Matthews and Irene Salvo
8. 'The Power of our Mouths': Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge, Fiona
McHardy
9. 'Women's Weapons': Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern
Stage, Chloe Preedy
Women Transmogrified
10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective,
Alessandra Abbattista
11. 'She's Turned Fury': Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays, Janet Clare
Lamentation, Gender Roles and Vengeance
12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5),
Andreas N. Michalopoulos
13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Annie
Baden-Danetree
14. What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?, Tanya Pollard
15. 'Nursed in Blood': Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's
Revenge, Rebecca Yearling
16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and
Ford's The Broken Heart, Lesel Dawson
Details of Contributors