Just anger : representing women's anger in early modern England / Gwynne Kennedy.

By:

Kennedy, Gwynne, 1955-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585330719
9780585330716

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just anger.DDC classification:

820.9/353 21

LOC classification:

PR428.F45 K46 2000eb

Other classification:

HI 1161
fn g13x

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Becoming Angry: The Gendering of Emotions in Early Modern England -- Angry Readers: Texts from the "Woman Controversy" -- Angry Wives: Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam -- Angry Wives as Political Subjects: Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II -- Angry Lovers: Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania -- Angry for God: Anne Askew's Examinations -- Afterword: The Politics of Anger.

Action note:

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve

Review: "Recognizing that ideas about emotions vary historically as well as culturally, Kennedy draws from recent critical work on emotions by historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and psychologists, as well as comparative studies of the emotions by cultural anthropologists. She contends that ideas about women's anger in early modern England are both like and unlike those in twentieth-century America. Although women's anger is often dismissed as irrational in both eras, for instance, in the early modern era women were thought to become angry more often and more easily than men due to their inherent physiological, intellectual, and moral inferiority." "Kennedy demonstrates the importance of class and race as factors affecting anger's legitimacy and its forms of expression. She shows how early modern assumptions about women's anger can help to create or exaggerate other differences among women. Her close scrutiny of anger against female inferiority emphasizes the crucial role of emotions in the construction of self-worth and identity."--Jacket

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

"Recognizing that ideas about emotions vary historically as well as culturally, Kennedy draws from recent critical work on emotions by historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and psychologists, as well as comparative studies of the emotions by cultural anthropologists. She contends that ideas about women's anger in early modern England are both like and unlike those in twentieth-century America. Although women's anger is often dismissed as irrational in both eras, for instance, in the early modern era women were thought to become angry more often and more easily than men due to their inherent physiological, intellectual, and moral inferiority." "Kennedy demonstrates the importance of class and race as factors affecting anger's legitimacy and its forms of expression. She shows how early modern assumptions about women's anger can help to create or exaggerate other differences among women. Her close scrutiny of anger against female inferiority emphasizes the crucial role of emotions in the construction of self-worth and identity."--Jacket

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

Print version record.

English.

Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, Ebsco 3 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. GB-UKExU

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.