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ISBN: 9780226725727

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For most readers and spectators, heroism takes the form of public, idealized masculinity. It calls to mind socially and morally elevated men embarking on active adventures: courageously confronting danger; valiantly rescuing the helpless; exploring and claiming unconquered terrain. But in this book, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of heroic identity began to dominate English culture. For both men and women, heroism came to be defined in terms of patience, as the ability to endure suffering, catastrophe, and pain.

Interweaving discourses of gender, Rose explores ways in which this heroics of endurance became the dominant model. She examines the glamorous, failed destinies of heroes in plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe; Elizabeth I's creation of a heroic identity in her public speeches; the autobiographies of four ordinary women thrust into the public sphere by civil war; and the seduction of heroes into slavery in works by Milton, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell. Ultimately, her study demonstrates the importance of the female in the creation of modern heroism, while offering a critique of both idealized action and suffering.

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Title Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature
Author Mary Beth Rose
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 144
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Publication date 2002-01
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780226725727 / 0226725723
Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
Dimensions 8.74 x 5.64 x 0.74 in (22.20 x 14.33 x 1.88 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Sex role in literature, English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001048008
Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

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Choice, 05/01/2002, Page 1587

About the author

Mary Beth Rose is a professor of English and director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is coeditor of Elizabeth I: Collected Works and the author of The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama.

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