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OverviewPracticing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary C. FlanneryPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781526110077ISBN 10: 1526110075 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 02 November 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women’s bodies 2 Lessons in shame 3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege 4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame 5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless craving Afterword Bibliography Index -- .Reviews'This is a timely book entering the field at a moment when the study of the history of both sex and emotion is suddenly exploding, and when greater attention is being paid to embodied experience, not least of emotion. Practising Shame will be of interest to those exploring these issues across time and place because it both offers an account with unnerving relevance for today and provides a successful model of how to answer some of these questions within a particular historical moment.' Journal of British Studies 'To say that Mary Flannery's Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England is timely would be an understatement. Through close analysis of popular and understudied texts, Flannery gives the reader a thorough tour of the double bind that is shamefastness, a bind that encouraged women to practice humility and yet, simultaneously, excoriated them for being false practitioners of shamefastness, as the practice was an obstacle for men's lust...In our own moment, when the integrity of women's testimony has stood at the center of high-profile trials and convictions, Flannery's book reveals how deeply this ideological misogyny is embedded.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer -- . Author InformationMary C. Flannery is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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