| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; chapter 1 Dismembering and remembering: the English Civil War and male identity; chapter 2 Republican politics; chapter 3 Opening the king's cabinet; chapter 4 Charles I; chapter 5 Cromwell; chapter 6 Monsters and men; chapter 7 Milton and monsters; chapter 8 Matthew Hopkins and the panic about witches; Conclusion; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by analysing representations of masculinity in the writings of Milton, Marvell, Waller and Herrick. This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) |
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Literature and the war.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Purkiss, Diane, 1961- Literature, gender and politics during the English Civil War. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521841372 (OCoLC)58556159 |
| ISBN |
0511126093 (electronic book) |
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9780511126093 (electronic book) |
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0511125615 (electronic book) |
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9780511125614 (electronic book) |
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0511125232 |
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9780511125232 |
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9780511483905 (ebook) |
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0511483902 (ebook) |
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1280202904 |
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9781280202902 |
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0521841372 (Cloth) |
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9780521841375 |
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