Revenge and gender in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lesel Dawson and Fiona McHardy.
• Editors: Dawson, Lesel; McHardy, Fiona
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance; PART I THE GENDERING OF REVENGE; 1 Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?; 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama; PART II F RIENDS AND FAMILY -- 'REVENGING HOME'; 3 Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga; 4 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea; 5 The Avenging Daughter in King Lear; 6 'Brother Unkind': Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore PART III WOMEN'S WEAPONS7 Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World; 8 'The Power of Our Mouths': Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge; 9 'Women's Weapons': Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage; PART IV WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED; 10 The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective; 11 'She's Turned Fury': Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays; PART V LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE; 12 A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5); 13 Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 14 What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?15 'Nursed in Blood': Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge; 16 Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart; List of Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809/.93353; Revenge in literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Classical literature -- History and criticism; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; Icelandic literature; Literature, Medieval; Revenge in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474414104; 1474414109; 9781474414111; 1474414117
• Related ISBNs: 1474414095; 9781474414098
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2018).
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