Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature by Dawson, Lesel

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474454643)

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Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature by Dawson, Lesel

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature

$37.95
Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature by Dawson, Lesel

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Key features:

  • The coverage, from classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how the revenge motifs work over time with gender in mind

  • It will appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics; medieval and renaissance literature; gender studies; revenge and revenge tragedy; the intertextual relations between ancient, medieval and early modern texts

  • It considers what constitutes the literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genre

  • Contributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare


    • Author: Lesel Dawson
    ISBN-10: 147445464X
    ISBN-13: 9781474454643
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Language: English
    Published: 11/27/2019
    Pages: 352
    Format: Paperback
    Weight: 1.15lbs
    Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d
By Lesel Dawson
By Lesel Dawson
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Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino.

Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

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