Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature /
Dawson, Lesel
Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature / Dawson, Lesel & McHardy, Fiona - Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press, 2019. - 352 p. ; 20 cm.
Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate.
9781474454643
Gender in Classical
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
809.93353 / DAW
Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature / Dawson, Lesel & McHardy, Fiona - Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press, 2019. - 352 p. ; 20 cm.
Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate.
9781474454643
Gender in Classical
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
809.93353 / DAW