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Literature, gender, and politics during the English Civil War /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature, gender, and politics during the English Civil War // Diane Purkiss.
remainder title:	Literature, Gender & Politics During the English Civil War
Author:	Purkiss, Diane,
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Masculinity in literature. -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483905
ISBN:	9780511483905 (ebook)

Literature, gender, and politics during the English Civil War /
Purkiss, Diane,1961-

Literature, gender, and politics during the English Civil War /Literature, Gender & Politics During the English Civil WarDiane Purkiss. - 1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Dismembering and remembering: the English Civil War and male identity --

In this innovative study, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention. Historians have tended to emphasise a model of human action in the Civil War based on the idea of the human self as rational animal. Purkiss reveals the irrational ideological forces governing the way seventeenth-century writers understood the state, the monarchy, the battlefield and the epic hero in relation to contested contemporary ideas of masculinity. She analyses the writings of Marvell, Waller, Herrick and the Caroline elegists, as well as in newsbooks and pamphlets, and pays particular attention to Milton's complex responses to the dilemmas of male identity. This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender.

ISBN: 9780511483905 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

663733
Masculinity in literature.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: PR428.M37 / P87 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 820.93521

Literature, gender, and politics during the English Civil War /
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