Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature [electronic resource] : The Pen and the Sword /
Feather, Jennifer.author.
By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction: The Pen and the Sword; 1 Heroic Anatomies; 2 "A Sharper Reproof to These Degenerate Effeminate Days"; 3 "Lo, Ye All Englishmen"; 4 Astraea Returned to Heaven; Conclusion: "Hunt Honour, and not Nations with Your Swords"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject.
Literature, Modern.
Great Britain-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature-Philosophy.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.