Flannery Practising shame

Female honour in later medieval England
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1008-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flannery, Mary C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women’s bodies
2 Lessons in shame
3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege
4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame
5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless craving
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary C. Flannery is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellow at the University of Bern