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  • Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture

    Manhood and the Duel by Low, J.;

    Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture

    Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700;

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    • Edition number 1st ed. 2003
    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
    • Date of Publication 2 May 2003
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9781349731091
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages238 pages
    • Size 216x140 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVII, 238 p.
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    As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the aggression inherent in single combat, masculinity could be understood in spatial terms, social terms, or developmental terms. Low considers each category, developing a corrective to recent analyses of gender in early modern culture by scrutinizing the relationship between social rank and the understanding of masculinity. Reading a variety of documents, including fencing manuals and anti-dueling tracts as well as plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and other dramatists, Low demonstrates the interaction between the duel as practice, as stage-device, and as locus of early modern cultural debate.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction The Duelist as Hero The Art of Fence and the Sense of Masculine Space Sexual Status and the Combat Misperceiving Masculinity, Misperceiving the Duel When Women Fight Conclusion

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