Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1.
"The observed of all observers": The Gendering of Heroism in Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
2.
Gender and the Construction of Royal Authority in the Speeches of Elizabeth I
3.
Gender, Genre, and History: Female Heroism in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
4.
"Vigorous most / When most unactive deem’d": Gender and the Heroics of Endurance in Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, and Mary Astell’s Some Reflections upon Marriage
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Prologue
1.
"The observed of all observers": The Gendering of Heroism in Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
2.
Gender and the Construction of Royal Authority in the Speeches of Elizabeth I
3.
Gender, Genre, and History: Female Heroism in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
4.
"Vigorous most / When most unactive deem’d": Gender and the Heroics of Endurance in Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, and Mary Astell’s Some Reflections upon Marriage
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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