The matter of virtue : women's ethical action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

The matter of virtue : women's ethical action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971- author.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Description:	352 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Virtue in literature. Women in literature. Ethics in literature. English poetry -- Early modern. English poetry -- Middle English. Ethics in literature. Virtue in literature. Women in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11948861

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ISBN:	9780812251418 0812251415
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Virtues That Matter
Part I. Prescriptive Failures
Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate
Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare
Part II. Grace, Enacted: Romance and Material Virtue
Chapter 3. Virtue's Grace: Custance and Other Daughters
Chapter 4. Virtue's Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser
Part III. Homely Virtues
Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Conclusion. Legends of Good Women
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments