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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe purpose of this work is the historical, analytic and comparative investigation of the canon of ancient and medieval works of secular misogamy. Secular misogamy is discussed in apposition to monastic and sacerdotal exhortations to celibacy, and it is studied as a separate and distinct topos in Western literature. The topos is divided into three branches: the general (addressed to Everyman), the ascetic (addressed to exemplary Christians), and the philosophic (addressed to the scholar). Representative works of the different branches are investigated within the ideological context of their genesis and within the generic and philological traditions of their respective groups.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Comparative and World Literature
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wilson, Katharina Margit
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8108705
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68334