| Verfasst von: | Widmayer, Anne F. [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Gender and emotion in eighteenth-century Britain |
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| Titelzusatz: | raging women and crying men |
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| Verf.angabe: | Anne F. Widmayer |
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| Verlagsort: | [Liverpool] |
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| | Oxford |
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| Verlag: | Liverpool University Press |
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| | Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford |
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| E-Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Jahr: | [2024] |
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| | [2024] |
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| Umfang: | xiv, 337 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Diagramme |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2024,11 |
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| Fussnoten: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-329 |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-83553-700-8 |
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| | 1-83553-700-6 |
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| Abstract: | "Gender and emotion in eighteenth-century Britain : raging women and crying men investigates emotional excess from the perspectives of performance studies, gender studies, cultural studies. For the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, "ravaging women" and crying men" illustrate how gender affects and audience's willingness to accept emotional performances. Female rage and male despair were both associated witht he stage where their excessiveness was singularly allowed - if often also criticized. When these emotions appeared in prose works, they were often portrayed as exaggerated, manipulative performances. In this monograph, Anne F. Widmayer argues that female rage and male despair are both precipitated by power inequities. Female rage defies gender inequality, whereas male weeping reinforces gender ranking. Women's rage assumes men's power; men's grief reveals their feminine weakness. Angry women and grieving men were thus viewed as equally monstrous because they upset contemporary gender roles. Employing the figures of Medea, Odysseus, and Achilles, Widmayer surprisingly delineates how stoicism and sentimentalism coexisted for much of the eighteenth century. As the far more taboo emotion, women's rage had to be suppressed in order to maintain a distinction between masculinity and femininity. To sometimes cry like women did not significantly lessen men's privilege, but to allow angry women to act like men risked endangering the gendered power structure of the eighteenth century."--Provided by the publisher |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313833353533373030387C7C434F50.jpg?sq=3 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (s)Geschlechterforschung / (g)Großbritannien / (s)Theater / (s)Literatur / (s)Gefühl / (g)1700-1799 |
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| | (g)Großbritannien / (s)Theater / (s)Darstellende Kunst / (s)Gefühl / (s)Geschlechterrolle / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800 |
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| | (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Gefühl <Motiv> / (s)Geschlechterrolle <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1660-1800 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Widmayer, Anne F.: Gender and emotion in eighteenth-century Britain. - [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 337 Seiten) |
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| RVK-Notation: | HK 1091 |
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| Sach-SW: | Différences entre sexes dans la littérature - 18e siècle |
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| | Arts du spectacle - Publics - Grande-Bretagne - 18e siècle |
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| | Femmes dans la littérature - 18e siècle |
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| | Hommes dans la littérature - 18e siècle |
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| | Cultural studies |
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| | Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher |
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| | FIC098030 |
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| | Feminism & feminist theory |
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| | Gender Studies: Gruppen |
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| | HISTORY / Social History |
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| | History: theory & methods |
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| | LIT024030 |
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| | Literary studies: plays & playwrights |
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| | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 |
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| | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft |
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| | Plays, playscripts |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies |
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| | Semantics, discourse analysis, etc |
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| | Theatre studies |
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| Geograph. SW: | Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien |
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| Zeit-SW: | 18. Jahrhundert (ca. 1700 bis ca. 1799) |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1907775943 |
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| Verknüpfungen: | → Übergeordnete Aufnahme |
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Gender and emotion in eighteenth-century Britain / Widmayer, Anne F. [VerfasserIn]; [2024]
