conduct literature and the making of the virtuous woman in early modern England
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Murphy, Jessica C.
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1C 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, normen, reinheid, vrouwbeelden, dagelijks leven, vroegmoderne periode, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that the virtues of silence, chastity and obedience were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period, from the plays of Shakespeare to a conduct manual written for a princess to letters from a wife to her husband, as well as contemporary gender theory and philosophy, she uncovers the multiple meanings of behavioral expectations for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women. Through her renegotiation of cultural ideals as presented in both literary and nonliterary texts of early modern England, Murphy presents models for “acceptable” women’s conduct that lie outside of the rigid prescriptions of the time.