Menacing virgins : representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie.

Other author Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.
Other author Leslie, Marina.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999.
Description246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600. --History and criticism.
Virginity in literature.

Contents Introduction: the epistemology of virginity / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie -- pt. 1. Virginity in the middle ages. "Blæju Þöll - young fir of the bed-clothes": Skaldic seduction / William Sayers ; Rhetoric, power, and integrity in the passion of the virgin martyr / Maud Burnett McInerney ; King by day, queen by night: the virgin Camille in the Roman d'Eneas / Wendy Chapman Peek -- Diana's "Bowe Ybroke": impotence, desire, and virginity in Chaucer's Parliament of fowls / Kathryn L. Lynch ; Menaced masculinity and imperiled virginity in Malory's Morte Darthur / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- pt. 2. Virginity in the renaissance. Il trionfo della pudicizia: menacing virgins in Italian renaissance domestic painting / Cristelle L. Baskins ; Metaphor and the mystification of chastity in Vives's Instruction of a christen woman / Nancy Weitz Miller ; Figuring chastity: Milton's Ludlow masque / Lauren Shohet ; Lost honor and torn veils: a virgin's rape in music / Lydia Hamessley ; Evading rape and embracing empire in Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity / Marina Leslie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 198-240) and index.
LCCN 98019983
ISBN0874136490

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Joyner General Stacks PN682.V56 M46 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold