Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 / Edition 1

by Dianne Dugaw

Overview

This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Dugaw demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226169163
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	01/15/1996
Edition description:	1
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Prologue
1: Popular balladry, Mary Ambree, and the beginnings of the Female Warrior motif, 1600-1650
2: The fashion for Female Warrior ballads: new "hits" and old favorites, 1650-1800
3: The museum life of Mary Ambree and the decline of the Female Warrior, 1800 to the present
4: The Female Warrior motif as an idea
5: The Female Warrior and everyday life in the early modern world
6: The Female Warrior and the construction of gender
7: Hic-Mulier: imaginative preoccupation and genotype for the Female Warrior
8: The Female Warrior, Gay's Polly, and the heroic ideal
Epilogue
Appendix
Select bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A reference that examines the various vocations of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Each expert chapter describes a particular pilgrim's specific function in 14th-century England. The emphasis is on the historical position of the various vocations foreworded in the "General Prologue." Other considerations are the link between each pilgrim's profession and the content or direction of his or her tale; the link between the profession and tale in terms of the pilgrim's character as defined in the "General Prologue"; and the ways in which the pilgrim's character goes beyond what might normally be expected from a member of such a group. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of recent critical works relative to that pilgrim. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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