Format:
1 online resource (218 pages)
ISBN:
9781442685109
Series Statement:
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes v.45
Content:
This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Invention of Virginity on Olympus -- 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus -- 3. The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health -- 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State -- 5. 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity -- 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art -- 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina -- 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birth -- 9. 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802090133
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802090133
Language:
English
