Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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'The intersection of gender trouble with the ambivalence of revenge provides a theme sufficiently broad to be of general interest, and yet sufficiently well defined to produce a coherent volume, in which intriguing connections are on display between various cultures, periods and textual genres.' Richard Seaford, University of Exeter 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. Lesel Dawson is a Senior Lecturer at Bristol University. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. Cover image: Adolphe William Bouguereau, French (1825-1905), Orestes pursued by the Furies, 1862, oil on canvas, 91x109 5/8 in. (231.1x2784 cm) (c) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.623 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1409-8

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9781474454643
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2019
• Größe: 230 x 153 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Fiona Mchardy, Lesel Dawson