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Metadados | Descrição | Idioma |
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Autor(es): dc.creator | Oliveira, Susana | - |
Data de aceite: dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-15T14:09:23Z | - |
Data de disponibilização: dc.date.available | 2022-02-15T14:09:23Z | - |
Data de envio: dc.date.issued | 2021-07-30 | - |
Data de envio: dc.date.issued | 2021-07-30 | - |
Data de envio: dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
Fonte completa do material: dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/10973 | - |
Fonte: dc.identifier.uri | http://educapes.capes.gov.br/handle/10400.2/10973 | - |
Descrição: dc.description | “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (William Shakespeare, Hamlet I. ii. 146). Hamlet’s words to his mother encapsulate the dominant and enduring belief regarding the condition of womankind, shared by men and women likewise: women are frail or “the weaker vessel”. Moreover, their weak bodies shelter their weak characters serving as the visible confirmation of the inner-self reality of every woman since Eve. This alleged weakness, or frailty, inherited from mothers to daughters, was perceived in the Early Modern context as inescapable, the result of God’s punishment upon Eve for her responsibility in the original sin that ultimately led humankind to fall. Focusing on women’s literary production, especially with reference to diaries and autobiographical writings, how did Early Modern women perspective themselves, physically and psychologically? Bringing ‘embodiment’ into question, when, how and where does the body become visible in women’s narratives? I would like to argue that the references to the physical and socio-political body in English Early Modern women’s autobiographical writings echo the discourses that labelled women as weak and frail. It is also my purpose to argue that weak bodies accommodate, quite frequently, heroic inner-selves. In this regard, Anne Clifford’s and Margaret Cavendish’s autobiographical texts offer two stimulating and representative examples for analysis. | - |
Descrição: dc.description | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | - |
Idioma: dc.language | en | - |
Publicador: dc.publisher | Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa | - |
Direitos: dc.rights | openAccess | - |
Palavras-chave: dc.subject | Early modern England women | - |
Palavras-chave: dc.subject | Autobiography | - |
Palavras-chave: dc.subject | Body | - |
Palavras-chave: dc.subject | Inner-self | - |
Título: dc.title | Early modern women’s concept of woman: the weak body and the heroic inner self | - |
Tipo de arquivo: dc.type | livro digital | - |
Aparece nas coleções: | Repositório Aberto - Universidade Aberta (Portugal) |
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