Tough Love : Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance /
In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality during the early modern period. Imagined as embodiments of female masculinity, amazonia...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abroad at home: the question of queens
- Falling off the edge of the world: Ralegh among the Amazons
- Fearful simile: stealing the breech in Shakespeare's chronicle plays
- Stranger in the mirror: Amazon reflections in the Jacobean queen's masque
- Splitting the difference: homoeroticism and home life
- Dressed to kill: looking for love in the faerie queene
- The probably impossible: inventing lesbians in Arcadia
- Tragical mirth: framing Shakespeare's Hippolyta
- Epilogue: via the two noble kinsmen.