Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer
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The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:079140062X
ISBN13:9780791400623
Release Date:September 1990
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:206 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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