Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lesel Dawson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2008) and has published journal articles on John Ford, the Elizabethan succession crisis and early modern ideas about menstruation and Quentin Tarantino.

Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton. She is author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (London: Duckworth, 2008).

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‘The intersection of gender trouble with the ambivalence of revenge provides a theme sufficiently broad to be of general interest, and yet sufficiently well defined to produce a coherent volume, in which intriguing connections are on display between various cultures, periods and textual genres.’Richard Seaford, University of ExeterExplores the representation of revenge from classical to early modern literatureThis collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate.Lesel Dawson is a Senior Lecturer at Bristol University.Fiona McHardy is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton.Cover image: Adolphe William Bouguereau, French (1825–1905), Orestes pursued by the Furies, 1862, oil on canvas, 91x109 5/8 in. (231.1x2784 cm) © Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.623Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1409-8