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Virtuous Necessity: Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
Jessica Murphy
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Description for Virtuous Necessity: Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
Hardcover. A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 cultural ideals as presented in both literary and nonliterary texts of ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119578
SKU
V9780472119578
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99-15
About Jessica Murphy
Jessica C. Murphy is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Dallas Project Manager for the English Broadside Ballad Archive.
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