Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Reihe: European Studies in English Literature
ISBN: 978-0-521-30961-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect of the motif; the genre of 'complaint' in which writers enabled women to put their own case, bewailing their fate, invoking pity, and stressing private rather than public virtues. The book begins with a group of Elizabethan poems in which women lament their unfortunate lives. It goes on to deal with a range of works, tracing the complaint from classical models such as Ovid's Heroical Epistles to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Shakespeare's Lucrece. However, Dr Schmitz shows that the mode is not confined to historical tales, nor to the early or early modern periods. In Elizabethan times it occurs in novellas and meditations and can be seen as the inspiration for eighteenth-century Roxanas and the nineteenth-century Magdalen.
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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Dido and Elissa: heroic and elegiac treatment of a legendary queen; 3. Philomela and Lucretia: classical heroines in English complaints; 4. Rosamond and virgin queen: heroines from British legend and history; 5. Susanna and the Magdalen: religious epyllia and complaints; 6. Violenta and Amanda: the novelistic complaint; 7. Commiseration and imagination: reflections on the elegiac narrative mode; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
