This collection is the first to examine the relation of grief and gender from 700-1700 in the literature and visual arts of England, France, Italy, and Germany. These essays on Anglo-Saxon, later medieval, and Renaissance texts illustrate how representations of grief need to be differentiated historically and in terms of cultural factors that influenced the gendering of this emotion. The collection features original essays by leading authorities in literature and art history, who approach the timely subject of grief and gender from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis, historicism, feminism, and cultural materialism and in terms of theories of masculinity and intertextuality.
Preface
Introduction; J.C.Vaught
PART I: ANGLO-SAXON AND MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN LAMENTS
From Kinship to Kingship: Mourning, Gender, and Anglo-Saxon Community; P.C.Ingham
Messages from the Past about Mourning as a Literary Motif: The Testimony of the Middle High German Poems The Lament, Johannes von Tepl's The Plowman, and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring; A.Classen
PART II: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEARS AND TRAUMA
Disordered Griefs and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale; M.C.Bodden
Us for to wepe no man may lett: Ambivalent Representations of Female Grief in the Medieval English Lazarus Plays; K.Goodland
Psychic Breaks: Malory's Sir Palomydes; B.Wheeler
PART III: MALE, FEMALE, AND CROSS-GENDERED MOURNING RITUALS IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE AND ITALY
Familial Tears; A.Lake Prescott
Augustine's Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany; A.Levy
Petrarch's 'Ladies' and Sappho's 'Sirens': Fetishism and Mourning in Renaissance Women's Poetry; J.Schiesari
PART IV: ELIZABETHAN LOSS AND REGENERATION
Grief and Creativity in Spenser's DaphnaIda; D.Cheney
Mother's Sorrow, Mother's Joy: Mourning Birth in Spenser's Garden of Adonis;
T.M.Krier
Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Forms of Desire; J.H.Anderson
PART V: GENDERED PERFORMANCES OF AFFECT IN SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare's Henry VI and the Gendering of Tears; M.J.Kurtz
Hamlet and the Genders of Grief; M.Grossman
PART VI: THE FAMILY, ABSENCE, AND MEMORY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
I might againe have been the Sepulcure: Paternal and Maternal Mourning in Early Modern England; P.Phillippy
Mine Own Breaking: Resistance, Gender & Temporality in Seventeenth-
Century English Elegies & Jonson's 'Eupheme'; W.S.Howard
Milton's Gendered Poetics of Grief; P.Cook
PART VII: GRIEF AND MANHOOD - THEN AND NOW
A Commencement Address 1976: For Tommy; H.Berger, Jr.
Afterword; D.L.Miller
Contributors
Index
JENNIFER C. VAUGHT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has published essays on Spenser and Shakespeare and is completing a book entitled The Renaissance Man of Sensibility: Spenser, Shakespeare and Their Contemporaries. This work examines affective rhetoric, gestures, and tears in men and the often times empowering relation of these means of expression to femininity in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Sidney.
Description
This collection is the first to examine the relation of grief and gender from 700-1700 in the literature and visual arts of England, France, Italy, and Germany. These essays on Anglo-Saxon, later medieval, and Renaissance texts illustrate how representations of grief need to be differentiated historically and in terms of cultural factors that influenced the gendering of this emotion. The collection features original essays by leading authorities in literature and art history, who approach the timely subject of grief and gender from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis, historicism, feminism, and cultural materialism and in terms of theories of masculinity and intertextuality.
Contents
Preface
Introduction; J.C.Vaught
PART I: ANGLO-SAXON AND MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN LAMENTS
From Kinship to Kingship: Mourning, Gender, and Anglo-Saxon Community; P.C.Ingham
Messages from the Past about Mourning as a Literary Motif: The Testimony of the Middle High German Poems The Lament, Johannes von Tepl's The Plowman, and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring; A.Classen
PART II: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEARS AND TRAUMA
Disordered Griefs and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and the Clerk's Tale; M.C.Bodden
Us for to wepe no man may lett: Ambivalent Representations of Female Grief in the Medieval English Lazarus Plays; K.Goodland
Psychic Breaks: Malory's Sir Palomydes; B.Wheeler
PART III: MALE, FEMALE, AND CROSS-GENDERED MOURNING RITUALS IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE AND ITALY
Familial Tears; A.Lake Prescott
Augustine's Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany; A.Levy
Petrarch's 'Ladies' and Sappho's 'Sirens': Fetishism and Mourning in Renaissance Women's Poetry; J.Schiesari
PART IV: ELIZABETHAN LOSS AND REGENERATION
Grief and Creativity in Spenser's DaphnaIda; D.Cheney
Mother's Sorrow, Mother's Joy: Mourning Birth in Spenser's Garden of Adonis;
T.M.Krier
Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Forms of Desire; J.H.Anderson
PART V: GENDERED PERFORMANCES OF AFFECT IN SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare's Henry VI and the Gendering of Tears; M.J.Kurtz
Hamlet and the Genders of Grief; M.Grossman
PART VI: THE FAMILY, ABSENCE, AND MEMORY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
I might againe have been the Sepulcure: Paternal and Maternal Mourning in Early Modern England; P.Phillippy
Mine Own Breaking: Resistance, Gender & Temporality in Seventeenth-
Century English Elegies & Jonson's 'Eupheme'; W.S.Howard
Milton's Gendered Poetics of Grief; P.Cook
PART VII: GRIEF AND MANHOOD - THEN AND NOW
A Commencement Address 1976: For Tommy; H.Berger, Jr.
Afterword; D.L.Miller
Contributors
Index
Authors
JENNIFER C. VAUGHT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has published essays on Spenser and Shakespeare and is completing a book entitled The Renaissance Man of Sensibility: Spenser, Shakespeare and Their Contemporaries. This work examines affective rhetoric, gestures, and tears in men and the often times empowering relation of these means of expression to femininity in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Sidney.
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