- Description
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Summary
- "Analyzes the ways in which Thomas More's writings treat the major cultural categories of the individual in civil life -- including pleasure and gender, chance, friendship, and role play -- as central to More's own views on the common weal, the common good, and the good state"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Pleasure and gender in the writings of Thomas More (Online)
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Alternative Title
- Pleasure and gender in the writings of Thomas More (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Pleasure, gender, and the pursuit of the common weal -- Chance, gender, pleasure, and the pursuit of the common weal -- Being a woman, pleasure, and the pursuit of whose common weal? -- Masculinity, friendship, pleasure, and the pursuit of which common weal? -- Role-play, masculinity, pleasure : in and beyond pursuit of the common weal.
- LCCN
- 2010021434
- OCLC
- ssj0000606036
- Author
Cousins, A. D., 1950-
- Title
Pleasure and gender in the writings of Thomas More [electronic resource] : pursuing the common weal / A. D. Cousins.
- Imprint
Pittsburgh, Penn. : Duquesne University Press, c2010.
- Series
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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