The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama
The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama

Author: N. Liebler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 113704957X

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This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History
Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History

Author: Graham Seal

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0857284215

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This book is an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many times and places. The book also looks at the contemporary continuations of the outlaw hero mythology, not only in popular culture and everyday life, but also in the current outbreak of global terrorism.

The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0230360025

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This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.

Heroines of the Medieval World
Heroines of the Medieval World

Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1445662655

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The stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history.

Heroines and History
Heroines and History

Author: Colin MacMillan Coates

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780802083302

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"This is a fascinating comparison of the histories of Ontario and Quebec as seen through the handling of their best-known heroines. Most Canadians are familiar with stories of Madeleine de Vercheres defending Montreal against the Iroquois in 1692 and of Laura Secord and her cow bravely crossing the American lines to warn the British during the War of 1812.