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Virtuous Necessity: Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women - silence, chastity, and obedience - to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period - from the plays of Shakespeare to a conduct manual written for a princess to letters from a wife to her husband - as well as contemporary gender theory and philosophy, she uncovers the multiple meanings of behavioral expectations for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women. Through her renegotiation of culturalideals as presented in both literary and nonliterary texts of early modern England, Murphy presents models for “acceptable” women’s conduct that lie outside of the rigid prescriptions of the time.
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press; Illustrated edition (30 July 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0472119575
ISBN-13 : 978-0472119578
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 4,916,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Publisher : University of Michigan Press; Illustrated edition (30 July 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0472119575
ISBN-13 : 978-0472119578
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 4,916,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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