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Coyness and crime in restoration comedy [[electronic resource] ] : women's desire, deception, and agency / / Peggy Thompson



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Autore: Thompson Peggy <1952 July 28-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Coyness and crime in restoration comedy [[electronic resource] ] : women's desire, deception, and agency / / Peggy Thompson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
Disciplina: 822/.0523093522
Soggetto topico: English drama - Restoration, 1660-1700 - History and criticism
English drama (Comedy) - History and criticism
Women in literature
Sex role in literature
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. COYNESS, CONDUCT, AND SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD; CHAPTER 2. FEMININE ILLUSION AND MASCULINE VIOLENCE IN WYCHERLEY'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 3. UNRULY WOMEN AND PATRIARCHAL CONTROL IN DRYDEN'S THE KIND KEEPER; CHAPTER 4. COYNESS, LOVE, AND MONEY IN BEHN'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 5. LIBERTY AND COYNESS IN SHADWELL'S COMEDIES; CHAPTER 6. NOVELTY AND COYNESS IN CONGREVE AND TROTTER; CHAPTER 7. MARRIAGE, VIRTUE, AND COYNESS IN SOUTHERNE, VANBRUGH, AND PIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sommario/riassunto: "Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy"--
Titolo autorizzato: Coyness and crime in restoration comedy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-36244-9
9786613362445
1-61148-373-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461732903321
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Serie: Transits (Bucknell University)