Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

Dugaw, Dianne

This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Dugaw demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.

EAN

9780226169163

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

15 January 1996

Pages

250