Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern EnglandAshgate, 2003 - 202 Seiten This book examines slander in early modern England as a gendered and theatrical cultural practice. Habermann explores oral defamation – the negative fashioning of others – in language and rhetoric, social interaction and the law, literature and authorship as well as religion, subjectivity and the body. Since the 'slander triangle', which requires an accuser, an audience and a victim, is inherently theatrical, the dramatic representation of slander forms a central concern of the study. Focusing on sexual slander in particular, Habermann shows how femininity was fashioned between praise and slander, and how the 'slandered heroine' emerged as an influential fantasy of femininity – a linguistic, legal and social mechanism that lends itself to masculine self-fashioning through the display of eloquence but that is also subject to resignification by female authors. As theatre and the law mutually influence each other, drama offers a poetic inquiry into the gendered subject and the social life of the community. |
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... social history and legal anthropology , philosophy , theology , literary criticism and gender studies . But comparing a range of materials – perhaps in line with my training as a literary critic I have found drama to offer the most ...
... social history and legal anthropology , philosophy , theology , literary criticism and gender studies . But comparing a range of materials – perhaps in line with my training as a literary critic I have found drama to offer the most ...
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... social consequences . Talking about others is perceived as a woman's job . Women are depicted as " brokers of oral reputation " who possess intimate knowledge of other people and are prepared to use it to further their own ends ...
... social consequences . Talking about others is perceived as a woman's job . Women are depicted as " brokers of oral reputation " who possess intimate knowledge of other people and are prepared to use it to further their own ends ...
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... social and political insubordination with respect to local authorities , which leads Ingram to conclude that " the practice of charivaris seems to have rested on a folkloric tradition that the populace had the right to supplement the ...
... social and political insubordination with respect to local authorities , which leads Ingram to conclude that " the practice of charivaris seems to have rested on a folkloric tradition that the populace had the right to supplement the ...
Inhalt
GRAD | 1 |
The Rhetoric of Slander | 27 |
The Law of Slander | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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