"They would not for a world transgresse the bounds of Civility": The "Otherness" of Early Modern Female Vices and Virtues Reassessed.
- Author / Editor
- Ludwikowska, Joanna.
"They would not for a world transgresse the bounds of Civility": The "Otherness" of Early Modern Female Vices and Virtues Reassessed.
- Published
- Early Modern Literary Studies 20, no. 1 (2018): 1-51. Open access journal at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/index (accessed February 6, 2022).
- Description
- Argues--with qualifications--that the Reformation did not have "any direct, significant influence on the changes in the discourse on female vices and virtues" in the early modern period. Focuses on social conditions, conduct literature, and fiction, using PhyT, SNT, ClT, and a range of other narratives as touchstones in describing the "prescription and practice" of female virtue and female vice "shared by pre-and post-Reformation social dialogue."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Clerk and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale