Gvtz Schmitz

The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1990 study examines the genre of 'complaint' in the motif of the 'fallen woman' - a common image in Elizabethan literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521179270
• ISBN-10: 0521179270
• Artikelnr.: 30976176

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Dido and Elissa: heroic and elegiac treatment of a legendary queen
3. Philomela and Lucretia: classical heroines in English complaints
4. Rosamond and virgin queen: heroines from British legend and history
5. Susanna and the Magdalen: religious epyllia and complaints
6. Violenta and Amanda: the novelistic complaint
7. Commiseration and imagination: reflections on the elegiac narrative mode
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.