TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wade,Mara R.
TI  - Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts
T2  - Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series
SN  - 9789401210232
AV  - PN56.V53 .G463 2014 
U1  - 809.933552 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Violence in the theater
KW  - Sex role in the theater
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts -- Table of Contents -- 1. Women Warriors, Fact and Fiction -- Introduction Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts -- The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it's time to call on a woman for help. -- The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Nō Plays -- 2. Violent Women, Violated Men -- Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer's The Death of Orpheus -- The Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art -- For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre -- Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron -- 3. Violence and the Gendered Body Politic -- Tears of the Muses: 1649 and the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy -- Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Château: Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion -- The Law Against Lovers: Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England -- 4. Gender in Print -- One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau's Pegme (1560) -- Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern English Stage -- Romancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel's Deß Teutschen Carls (1690) and Deß Engelländischen Eduards (1691) -- 5. Gender and Violence on the Stage -- Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera: the Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti of Francesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault -- Gismond of Salern and the Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama -- "Drabs of State vext": Violent Female Masquers in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women -- 6. Virtue and Violence; Death, Femininity, and the Art of Painting in Frans Francken's The Painter's Studio -- Masculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury -- The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain -- Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico -- Notes on Contributors
N2  - Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence
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