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The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By Holly A. Crocker

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780812296273
DOI
10.9783/9780812296273
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25264499 bytes)
Pages
360\354
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:32:17

Description

In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

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