Virtuous passions: Shakespeare and the culture of shyness in early modern England

The dissertation develops an interdisciplinary account of the psychological and affective state of shyness, and examines representations of the emotion, along with its variant states shame, bashfulness, and modesty, in Shakespeare and in other early English literature. It brings together work from v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Tiffany
Other Authors: Kenneth H Borris (Supervisor1)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2014
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=122962