Dianne Dugaw

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650 1850

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dianne Dugaw's book documents the flourishing of the female warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780521372541
• ISBN-10: 0521372542
• Artikelnr.: 29338184

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of figures
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
Notes
Appendix
Selected bibliography.