Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
pursuing the common weal |
Author: |
CousinsA. D., 1950- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Pittsburgh, Penn. |
Published: |
Duquesne University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (178 p.). |
Series: |
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies |
Subject: |
Pleasure in literature - |
Subject: |
Sex role in literature - |
Subject: |
Civil society in literature - |
Personal Subject: |
More - Thomas - Political and social views - |
Personal Subject: |
More - Thomas - Criticism and interpretation - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820705002/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Summary: |
"Analyzes the ways in which Thomas More's writings treat the major cultural categories of theindividual in civil life -- including pleasure and gender, chance, friendship, and role play -- as central to More'sown views on the common weal, the common good, and the good state"--Provided by publisher |
ISBN: |
9780820705002electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780820704388hbk. |
ISBN: |
0820704385hbk. |
Content Note: |
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 |