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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCrocker, Holly A.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Matter of Virtue :
_bWomen's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /
_cHolly A. Crocker.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (360 p.) :
_b11 illus.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction. Virtues That Matter --
_tPART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES --
_tChapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate --
_tChapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare --
_tPART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE --
_tChapter 3. Virtue’s Grace: Custance and Other Daughters --
_tChapter 4. Virtue’s Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser --
_tPART III. HOMELY VIRTUES --
_tChapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare --
_tConclusion. Legends of Good Women --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIf material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Lydgate's Troy Book, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aEnglish poetry
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish poetry
_yMiddle English, 1100-1500
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEthics in literature.
650 0 _aVirtue in literature.
650 0 _aVirtues in literature.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 4 _aHistory-Medieval 500 to 1500.
650 4 _aInterdisciplinary-Gender Studies.
650 4 _aLiterature (Scholarly).
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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653 _aCultural Studies.
653 _aGender Studies.
653 _aLiterature.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
653 _aWomen's Studies.
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