"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.

Title
"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