Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature: The Pen and the Sword

Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature: The Pen and the Sword
ISBN-10
113701041X
ISBN-13
9781137010414
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
2011-12-22
Publisher
Springer
Author
Jennifer Feather

Description

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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