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Author:

Rose, Mary Beth.

Title:

Gender and heroism in early modern English literature / Mary Beth Rose.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xxii, 139 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Courage in literature.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Women--Great Britain--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Patience in literature.
Heroes in literature

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780226725734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226725731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226725727 (alk. paper)
0226725723 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47705449

LCCN:

2001048008

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)