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The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
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The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse Hardcover - 1990

by Gvtz Schmitz


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The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect of the motif; the genre of 'complaint' in which writers enabled women to put their own case, bewailing their fate, invoking pity, and stressing private rather than public virtues. The book begins with a group of Elizabethan poems in which women lament their unfortunate lives. It goes on to deal with a range of works, tracing the complaint from classical models such as Ovid's Heroical Epistles to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Shakespeare's Lucrece. However, Dr Schmitz shows that the mode is not confined to historical tales, nor to the early or early modern periods. In Elizabethan times it occurs in novellas and meditations and can be seen as the inspiration for eighteenth-century Roxanas and the nineteenth-century Magdalen.

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  • Title The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
  • Author Gvtz Schmitz
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1990-07
  • ISBN 9780521309615 / 0521309611
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.83 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.11 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89038033
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.030
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