Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War

by Diane Purkiss

Book Overview

In this innovative study, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention. Historians have tended to emphasise a model of human action in the Civil War based on the idea of the human self as rational animal. Purkiss reveals the irrational ideological forces governing the way seventeenth-century writers understood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521152763
• ISBN13: 9780521152761
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"