The matter of virtue : women's ethical action from Chaucer to Shakespeare /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:	English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Virtue in literature. Women in literature. Ethics in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Virtues that matter. Part I. Prescriptive failures. The fragility of virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate
The matter of virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare
Part II. Grace, enacted: Romance and material virtue. Virtue's grace: Custance and other daughters
Virtue's knowledge in Lodge and Spenser
Part III. Homely virtues. Shrewish virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Conclusion. Legends of good women.