Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature /

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature / / Lesel Dawson, Fiona McHardy.

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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 disc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Dawson, Lesel,
McHardy, Fiona,
MitwirkendeR:
Abbattista, Alessandra,
Baden-Daintree, Anne,
Clare, Janet,
Dawson, Lesel,
Eaton, Sara,
Felce, Ian,
Findlay, Alison,
Hall, Edith,
Matthews, Lydia,
McHardy, Fiona,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Pollard, Tanya,
Preedy, Chloe Kathleen,
Salvo, Irene,
Tassi, Marguerite A.,
Winter, Kathrin,
Yearling, Rebecca,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements and Dedication
  • Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance
  • PART I THE GENDERING OF REVENGE
  • Chapter 1 Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?
  • Chapter 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama
  • PART II FRIENDS AND FAMILY – ‘REVENGING HOME’
  • Chapter 3 Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga
  • Chapter 4 ‘Now I am Medea’: Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca’s Medea
  • Chapter 5 The Avenging Daughter in King Lear
  • Chapter 6 ‘Brother Unkind’: Annabella’s Heart in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
  • PART III WOMEN’S WEAPONS
  • Chapter 7 Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World
  • Chapter 8 ‘The Power of Our Mouths’: Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge
  • Chapter 9 ‘Women’s Weapons’: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage
  • PART IV WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED
  • Chapter 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective
  • Chapter 11 ‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays
  • PART V LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE
  • Chapter 12 A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5)
  • Chapter 13 Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • Chapter 14 What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?
  • Chapter 15 ‘Nursed in Blood’: Masculinity and Grief in Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge
  • Chapter 16 Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Ford’s The Broken Heart
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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