Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850
by Dianne Dugaw
Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality.
Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.
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Ballads, English, English Ballads, English War poetry, English poetry, Heroines in literature, History and criticism, Popular literature, Transvestism in literature, Transvestites in literature, War poetry, English, Women in literature, Women soldiers in literature, Ballads, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Cross-dressers in literature, Cross-dressing in literaturePlaces
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Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850
1996, University of Chicago Press
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Warriorwomen and popular balladry, 1650-1850
1996, University of Chicago Press
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Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850
1989, Cambridge University Press
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0521372542 9780521372541
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-223) and index.
Originally published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. (Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 4)
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