The matter of virtue : women's ethical action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /
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Author / Creator: | Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971- author. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] |
Description: | 352 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11948861 |
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