Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature - Softcover

Lesel Dawson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147445464X ISBN 13: 9781474454643

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton.

From the Back Cover

'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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147445464X
• ISBN 13: 9781474454643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Lesel Dawson, Fiona McHardy