The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse

by Gvtz Schmitz, Gotz Schmitz, Gtz Schmitz

Book Overview

The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect of the motif; the genre of 'complaint' in which writers enabled women to put their own case, bewailing their fate, invoking pity, and stressing private rather than public virtues. The book begins with a group of Elizabethan poems in which women lament their unfortunate lives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521179270
• ISBN13: 9780521179270
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"