UID:
edoccha_9958872875102883
Format:
1 online resource (239 pages)
ISBN:
1-5017-2810-5
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1-5017-2324-3
Content:
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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1. Moral Conceptions of Sexual Love in Elizabethan Comedy --
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2. Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy --
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3. A Waste of Shame: The Heroics of Marriage in English Renaissance Tragedy --
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4. Transforming Sexuality : Jacobean Tragicomedy and the Reconfiguration of Private Life --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-2325-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-9695-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501728105
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501723247
