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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Prologue 1: Popular balladry, Mary Ambree, and the beginnings of the Female Warrior motif, 1600-1650 2: The fashion for Female Warrior ballads: new "hits" and old favorites, 1650-1800 3: The museum life of Mary Ambree and the decline of the Female Warrior, 1800 to the present 4: The Female Warrior motif as an idea 5: The Female Warrior and everyday life in the early modern world 6: The Female Warrior and the construction of gender 7: Hic-Mulier: imaginative preoccupation and genotype for the Female Warrior 8: The Female Warrior, Gay's Polly, and the heroic ideal Epilogue Appendix Select bibliography Index
