Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 Seiten)
Edition:
1. published
ISBN:
9781526110084
Series Statement:
Manchester medieval literature and culture 29
Content:
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to reinforce women’s chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526110060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Flannery, Mary C., 1980 - Practising shame Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781526110060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526110077
Language:
English
Keywords:
England
;
Frau
;
Ehre
;
Ehre
;
Geschichte 1250-1500
DOI:
10.7765/9781526110084
