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Coyness and crime in restoration comedy : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.
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Thompson, Peggy, 1952 July 28-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., ©2012.
Description
xi, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR698.C6 T48 2012
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Subject(s)
Comedies of manners, English
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History and criticism
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English drama
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Restoration, 1660-1700
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History and criticism
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English drama (Comedy)
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History and criticism
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Women in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Literature and society
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Great Britain
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History
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17th century
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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Transits : literature, thought & culture
Summary note
"Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Coyness, conduct, and She would if she could
Feminine illusion and masculine violence in Wycherley's comedies
Unruly women and patriarchal control in Dryden's The kind keeper
Coyness, love, and money in Behn's comedies
Liberty and coyness in Shadwell's comedies
Novelty and coyness in Congreve and Trotter
Marriage, virtue, and coyness in Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix.
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ISBN
9781611483727 ((hardback))
1611483727 ((hardback))
9781611483734 ((electronic))
1611483735 ((electronic))
LCCN
2011029249
OCLC
729344024
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