What You Will : : Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space / / Kathryn Schwarz.
In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a d...
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Schwarz, Kathryn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut What You Will : Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space / Kathryn Schwarz. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (320 p.) : 12 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Citation -- Introduction: Virtue Trouble -- Chapter One. Willing Women -- Chapter Two. Willful Speech: Metonymy and Mastery -- Chapter Three. Acts of Will: Misogyny and Masquerade -- Chapter Four. ''My Intents Are Fix'd'': Constant Will in All's Well That Ends Well -- Chapter Five. ''Will in Overplus'': Recasting Misogyny in the Sonnets -- Chapter Six. ''Twixt Will and Will Not'': Chastity and Fracture in Measure for Measure -- Chapter Seven. ''Fallen Out With My More Headier Will'': Dislocation in King Lear -- Epilogue. Or: The Roman Matron -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a debilitating obligation, and devoted mothers who destroy the fitness of children. These cautionary tales draw attention to the more ordinary, necessary choices that take prescribed roles as a mandate for purposeful acts. For early modern narratives, writes Schwarz, intentional compliance poses a complex problem: it sustains crucial tenets of order and continuity but unsettles the hierarchical premises from which those tenets derive. Feminine will appears as a volatile force within heterosociality, lending contingent security to a system that depends less on enforced obedience than on contract and consent.The book begins with an examination of early modern disciplines that treat will as an aspect of the individual psyche, of rhetoric, and of sexual and gendered identities. Drawing on these readings, Schwarz turns to Shakespearean works in which feminine characters articulate and manage the values that define them, revealing the vital force of conventional acts. Her analysis engages with recent research that has challenged the premise of feminine subordination, both by identifying alternative positions and by illuminating resistance within repressive structures. Schwarz builds on this awareness of disparate modes and sites of action in formulating the book's central questions: With what agency, and to what effect, do feminine subjects inhabit the conventions of femininity? In what sense are authenticity and masquerade inseparable aspects of social performance? How might coercive systems produce effective actors? What possibilities emerge from the paradox of prescribed choice? Her conclusions have implications not only for early modern scholarship but also for histories of gender and sexuality, queer studies, and theories of the relationship between subjectivity and ideological constraint. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Femininity in literature. Sex role in literature. Social role in literature. Women in literature. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812243277 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205039 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205039 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205039/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Citation -- Introduction: Virtue Trouble -- Chapter One. Willing Women -- Chapter Two. Willful Speech: Metonymy and Mastery -- Chapter Three. Acts of Will: Misogyny and Masquerade -- Chapter Four. ''My Intents Are Fix'd'': Constant Will in All's Well That Ends Well -- Chapter Five. ''Will in Overplus'': Recasting Misogyny in the Sonnets -- Chapter Six. ''Twixt Will and Will Not'': Chastity and Fracture in Measure for Measure -- Chapter Seven. ''Fallen Out With My More Headier Will'': Dislocation in King Lear -- Epilogue. Or: The Roman Matron -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Citation -- Introduction: Virtue Trouble -- Chapter One. Willing Women -- Chapter Two. Willful Speech: Metonymy and Mastery -- Chapter Three. Acts of Will: Misogyny and Masquerade -- Chapter Four. ''My Intents Are Fix'd'': Constant Will in All's Well That Ends Well -- Chapter Five. ''Will in Overplus'': Recasting Misogyny in the Sonnets -- Chapter Six. ''Twixt Will and Will Not'': Chastity and Fracture in Measure for Measure -- Chapter Seven. ''Fallen Out With My More Headier Will'': Dislocation in King Lear -- Epilogue. Or: The Roman Matron -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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