Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 200438832
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh UP, Edinburgh
- ISBN
- 9781474414098
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This c.145,000-word edited book was conceived by Dawson and arose out of her research into the history of the emotions (in particular vengeance and grief). It offers new insights into the gendering of vengeance and mourning across different texts and periods. Dawson’s scholarly expertise in the history of the emotions and of revenge tragedy across time enable her to conceive the book’s overall design and the wider theoretical questions it addresses. As a first stage, Dawson organized a conference on ‘Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature’ in Bristol in 2012. She invited key scholars to speak at the conference and subsequently to contribute to the volume, and invited the classicist Fiona McHardy to join the project as co-editor. Approximately one-third of conference contributors were invited to submit their papers for the book, and Dawson was proactive in amalgamating two papers into a single chapter and commissioning further contributions. She undertook the bulk of the initial reading of chapters and the editing of the book, sending contributors detailed feedback on drafts, cross-referencing chapters and enhancing overall coherence and focus. Together with her co-editor, she designed and shaped the overall structure of the book. Dawson is the sole author of: a) the Introduction – at c.13,500 words, a substantial research contribution in its own right, offering an overview of the central issues concerning the relationship of revenge in gender from classical to early modern literature and culture; an original argument regarding the gendering of mourning; and an account of debates in the scholarship. And b) a c.9,000-word research-based chapter on the gendering of heroism, offer a new reading of a potential source text for John Ford’s The Broken Heart.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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