UID:
edocfu_9959240530802883
Format:
1 online resource (203 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-36244-9
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9786613362445
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1-61148-373-5
Series Statement:
Transits : literature, thought & culture
Content:
"Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy"--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. COYNESS, CONDUCT, AND SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD; CHAPTER 2. FEMININE ILLUSION AND MASCULINE VIOLENCE IN WYCHERLEY'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 3. UNRULY WOMEN AND PATRIARCHAL CONTROL IN DRYDEN'S THE KIND KEEPER; CHAPTER 4. COYNESS, LOVE, AND MONEY IN BEHN'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 5. LIBERTY AND COYNESS IN SHADWELL'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 6. NOVELTY AND COYNESS IN CONGREVE AND TROTTER; CHAPTER 7. MARRIAGE, VIRTUE, AND COYNESS IN SOUTHERNE, VANBRUGH, AND PIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-551-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-372-7
Language:
English
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