Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrations in text. Very good condition, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Mara R. Wade: Introduction Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts; -- Women Warriors, Fact and Fiction -- Judith P. Aikin: Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt: When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it's time to call on a woman for help; Elizabeth Oyler: Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese No Plays; -- Violent Women, Violated Men -- Helmut Puff: Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer's The Death of Orpheus; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly: Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art; Julie Singer: For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre; Marcus Keller: Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron; -- Violence and the Gendered Body Politic -- Catharine Gray: Tears of the Muses: 1649 & the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy; Brian Sandberg: Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Chateau: Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion; Lori Humphrey Newcomb: Law Against Lovers: Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England; -- Gender in Print -- Elizabeth Black: One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau's Pegme (1560); Tara L. Lyons: Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern English Stage; Gerhild Scholz Williams: Romancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel's Dess Teutschen Carls, 1690 & Dess Engellandischen Eduards, 1691; -- Gender & Violence on the Stage -- Susan Parisi: Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera: Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti of Francesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault; Curtis Perry: Gismond of Salern and Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama; Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich: "Drabs of State vext": Violent Female Masquers in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women; -- Virtue & Violence -- Carmen Ripolles: Death, Femininity & the Art of Painting in Frans Francken's The Painter's Studio; Lisa Rosenthal: Masculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury; Anne J. Cruz: Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain; Carl Niekerk: Violence, Gender & Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle & Yarico -- "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. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disciplinary scope for inquiry, the present volume brings together a wide range of scholarly papers investigating a cohesive topic-gendered violence-from the perspectives of French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Japanese literature, history, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. It interrogates the intersection of gender and violence in the early modern period, cutting across national traditions, genres, media, and disciplines. By engaging several levels of discourse, the volume advances a holistic approach to understanding gendered violence in the early modern world. The convergence of discourses concerning literature, the arts, emerging print technologies, social and legal norms, and textual and visual practices leverages a more complex understanding of gender in this period. Through the unifying lens of gender and violence the contributions to this volume comprehensively address a wide scope of diverse issues, approaches, and geographies from late medieval Japan to the European Enlightenment. While the majority of essays focus on early modern Europe, they are broadly contextualized and informed by integrated critical approaches pertaining to issues of violence and gender.".…