Gender, agency and violence
Subtitle: European perspectives from early modern times to the present day
By: edited by Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781443850377
Subjects: European literature; Congresses; History and criticism; Violence in literature; Gender identity in literature
Description: Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day centres on literary, cinematic and artistic male and female perpetrators of violence and their discourses. The fifteen contributions to this volume show how patterns of violent agency can be translated across cultures, while individual articles are focused on the authors' particular fields of expertise. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and cross-European approach - covering French, German, English and Italian case-studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and allowing for the exploration of recurrent themes. The contributions also facilitate an insight into how the arts and media respond to historical turning points which, time and again, challenge the link between gender, agency and violence for individuals and society alike.-Publisher description.
Notes: Papers based on a two-day conference held at the Institute of German and Romance Studies (IGRS) in London in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.