Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature

Feather, Jennifer

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“…Jennifer Feather explains that the righteousness of combat -and, by extension, the identity of the warrior -directly relates to the way in which the fighter actualizes the fight. 58 It is not, in short, enough to fight skillfully -one must fight honorably. While the craven Laxton appeals to Moll's preferred gender identity when she spares him -'Spoke like a noble girl, i'faith!'…”

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'Untruss a Point' - Interiority, Sword Combat, and Gender in <i>The Roaring Girl</i>

Carter

2017

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This article discusses the critical apparatus surrounding Dekker and Middleton’s well-known play The Roaring Girl. While previous discussions of the text have focused mostly on Moll’s cross-dressing, I instead look at Moll’s sword skills to show how the lascivious behaviour of London’s men produces her gender performance, which seems unruly by early modern standards. I also examine other rituals of gender construction that texture previous analyses of Moll.

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'Untruss a Point' - Interiority, Sword Combat, and Gender in <i>The Roaring Girl</i>

Carter

2017

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“…In exploring the unruly masculinity of Shakespeare's Richard III, Ian Adam Moulton shows how the play both critiques and celebrates masculine aggression. Similarly, in Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature , I analyze male aggression as a particularly tenacious aspect of masculine identity. Of course, many have explained its persistence in terms of male biology, but historical study offers a particularly fruitful vantage point from which to examine its endurance.…”

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Shakespeare and Masculinity

Feather

2015

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The peculiar challenge posed by studying Shakespearean masculinity is its resistance to inquiry. Patriarchal ideologies function precisely by taking a specific form of male power, the power of the father, as neutral, given and, therefore, not an available object of study. Scholars have faced this challenge by examining masculinity at those very moments when it falters and fractures. The study of Shakespeare's male characters has an extensive history, and for much of that history, these characters were interesting and significant because they told us something about mankind, about human beings in general. Examining masculinity rather than men, scholars rethought the study of maleness as a feminist project and made a fertile space for historical study that draws out the contours of manliness in all its historical specificities. Such study lays the groundwork for new analyses that interrogate the association between masculine attributes and culturally valued forms of self. These analyses do more than simply question the dominance of men but propose alternative ideas of the masculine and alternative forms of human flourishing.

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“Warring Spirits”: Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton’s Paradise Lost

Cleland¹

2013

Violent Masculinities

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Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature

Cited by 6 publications

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'Untruss a Point' - Interiority, Sword Combat, and Gender in <i>The Roaring Girl</i>

'Untruss a Point' - Interiority, Sword Combat, and Gender in <i>The Roaring Girl</i>

Shakespeare and Masculinity

“Warring Spirits”: Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton’s Paradise Lost

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