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Gender and heroism in early modern English literature
- Title
- Gender and heroism in early modern English literature / Mary Beth Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Mary Beth.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 139 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Sex role in literature
- Heroines in literature
- Women > Great Britain > Biography > History and criticism
- Courage in literature
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Patience in literature
- Heroes in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-133) and index.
- Contents
- "The unobserved of all observers": the gendering of heroism in Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare -- Gender and the construction of royal authority in the speeches of Elizabeth I -- Gender, genre, and history: female heroism in seventeenth-century autobiography -- "Vigerous most/When most unactive deem'd": gender and the heroics of endurance in Milton's Samson Agonistes, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, and Mary Astell's Some reflection upon marriage.
- Call Number
- JFD 02-5521
- ISBN
- 0226725723 (alk. paper)
- 0226725731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001048008
- OCLC
- 47705449
- Author
- Rose, Mary Beth.
- Title
- Gender and heroism in early modern English literature / Mary Beth Rose.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-133) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 02-5521