Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650 1850

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

List of contents

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Dianne Dugaw
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521372541
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37254-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies