Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850 / Dianne Dugaw
1989, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #464982
ISBN: 0521372542
Series; Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 4. Physical description; xvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Prologue -- Part I. The Ballads and Their Heroine: 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 Favourites, 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 -- Part II. Reading The Female Warrior: 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. Subjects; Ballads, English. England. History and criticism. English poetry. 18th century. History and criticism. Popular literature. England. History and criticism. War poetry, English. History and criticism. Women soldiers in literature. Heroines in literature. Women in literature. Cross-dressing in literature.
Price: €120.00