The Matter of Virtue : : Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare / / Holly A. Crocker.
If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virt...
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Crocker, Holly A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Matter of Virtue : Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare / Holly A. Crocker. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (360 p.) : 11 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Virtues That Matter -- PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES -- Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate -- Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare -- PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE -- Chapter 3. Virtue’s Grace: Custance and Other Daughters -- Chapter 4. Virtue’s Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser -- PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES -- Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare -- Conclusion. Legends of Good Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Lydgate's Troy Book, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men. 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 21. Jun 2021) English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Ethics in literature. Virtue in literature. Women in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Gender Studies. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Women's Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 English 9783110610369 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019 9783110606348 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296273 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296273 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296273.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Virtues That Matter -- PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES -- Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate -- Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare -- PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE -- Chapter 3. Virtue’s Grace: Custance and Other Daughters -- Chapter 4. Virtue’s Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser -- PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES -- Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare -- Conclusion. Legends of Good Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Virtues That Matter -- PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES -- Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate -- Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare -- PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE -- Chapter 3. Virtue’s Grace: Custance and Other Daughters -- Chapter 4. Virtue’s Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser -- PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES -- Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare -- Conclusion. Legends of Good Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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