Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency - Rilegato

Thompson, Peggy

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ISBN 10: 1611483727 ISBN 13: 9781611483727

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 2012

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.

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Peggy Thompson has written on Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, fiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in Studies in Philology; SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; Restoration: Studies in Literary Culture, 1660-1700; Eighteenth-Century Fiction and elsewhere. She is the Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College.

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• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611483727
• ISBN 13: 9781611483727
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 189