The Matter of Virtue : : Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

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.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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