Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Advancement of Learning
Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon, of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane
Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learning
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
What You Will
Author: Kathryn SchwarzPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a debilitating obligation, and devoted mothers who destroy the fitness of children. These cautionary tales draw attention to the more ordinary, necessary choices that take prescribed roles as a mandate for purposeful acts. For early modern narratives, writes Schwarz, intentional compliance poses a complex problem: it sustains crucial tenets of order and continuity but unsettles the hierarchical premises from which those tenets derive. Feminine will appears as a volatile force within heterosociality, lending contingent security to a system that depends less on enforced obedience than on contract and consent. The book begins with an examination of early modern disciplines that treat will as an aspect of the individual psyche, of rhetoric, and of sexual and gendered identities. Drawing on these readings, Schwarz turns to Shakespearean works in which feminine characters articulate and manage the values that define them, revealing the vital force of conventional acts. Her analysis engages with recent research that has challenged the premise of feminine subordination, both by identifying alternative positions and by illuminating resistance within repressive structures. Schwarz builds on this awareness of disparate modes and sites of action in formulating the book's central questions: With what agency, and to what effect, do feminine subjects inhabit the conventions of femininity? In what sense are authenticity and masquerade inseparable aspects of social performance? How might coercive systems produce effective actors? What possibilities emerge from the paradox of prescribed choice? Her conclusions have implications not only for early modern scholarship but also for histories of gender and sexuality, queer studies, and theories of the relationship between subjectivity and ideological constraint.
Maggs Bros. Catalogues
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
English Literature & Printing from the XVth to XVIIIth Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros...English Literature & Printing from the XVth to XVIIth Century...
Author: Maggs BrosCatalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Author: Bacon
Author: Francis Bacon