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.
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