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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Female Virtue"”.
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… thesis analyses presentations of the concept of female virtue in Gothic literature between 1780 and 1810 particularly by drawing on literary texts supplemented by contemporary non-literary sources in order to set out the background and definitions of my work. The word ‘virtue’ has come to mean …
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Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia
… illustrate the potential for the corruption of female virtue.
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Cosmetic Theology in England, c. 650–1100: Aldhelm of Malmesbury, the Venerable Bede, and Goscelin of St Bertin
… Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, who linked the female body and its adornment to broader theological problems of sin, human agency, and the created order. Chapters 2 to 4 follow the reception of cosmetic theology by the most influential Latin authors of early medieval England: Aldhelm of …
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Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759
… considers how and why representations of female suffering in Restoration tragedy had a profound impact on the development of mid-eighteenth century novels and plays, focusing primarily on the work of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… in relation to contemporaneous developments in female portraiture. This thesis focuses on the three fifteenth-century Italian writing women who are also firmly identified subjects in independent painted portraits: Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427-1482), painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in c.1475; …