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Writing combat and the self in early modern English literature : the pen and the sword / Jennifer Feather.
Van Pelt Library PR418.C66 F43 2011
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR418.C66 F43 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feather, Jennifer.
- Series:
- Early modern cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Combat in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- By examining competing depictions of combat in sixteenth-century texts such as Arthurian romance and early modern medical texts, this original study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Heroic Anatomies 23
- 2 "A Sharper Reproof to These Degenerate Effeminate Days" 77
- 3 "Lo, Ye All Englishmen" 115
- 4 Astraea Returned to Heaven 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230120419
- 0230120415
- OCLC:
- 729342532
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