Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature

The Pen and the Sword

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349298600
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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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ISBN13:9781349298600
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction: The Pen and the Sword Heroic Anatomies: Vesalius, Geminus, and the Humanist Subject 'A Sharper Reproof to These Degenerate Effeminate Days': History, Gender, Combat and Nation 'Lo, Ye All Englishmen': Malory and the PreModern Self Astrae Returned to Heaven: Spenser, Justice, and Combat

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        Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature