{"product_id":"tough-love-9780822325994","title":"Tough Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you are content with received views of female constriction under early modern patriarchy, don't read this book! Through the figure of the Amazon, Kathryn Schwarz offers a dazzling, ground-breaking reinterpretation of major canonical authors—Raleigh, Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, Sidney—that is also a celebration of the power and agency of women.”—Leah Marcus, author of \u003ci\u003eUnediting the Renaissance : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Schwarz’s approach is sophisticated and wide-reaching, as she thinks through the nuanced way in which a single reference or metaphor mediates issues of sexuality\/desire, on the one hand, and community formation on the other.”—Wendy Wall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Gender in the English Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part One \u003cbr\u003eAbroad at Home: The Question of Queens \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One\u003cbr\u003eFalling off the Endge of the WOrld: Ralegh among the Amazons \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two\u003cbr\u003eFearful Simile; Stealing the Breech in Shakespeare's Chronicle Plays \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three\u003cbr\u003eStranger in the Mirror: Amazon Reflections in the Jacobean Queen's Masque \u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003eSplitting the Difference: Homoeroticism and Home Life \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four\u003cbr\u003eDressed to Kill: Looking for Love in the Faerie Queene \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five\u003cbr\u003eThe Probably Impossible: Inventing Lesbians in Arcadia \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six\u003cbr\u003eTragical Mirth: Framing Shakespeare's Hippolyta \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Via the Two Noble Kinsmen \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026350935,"sku":"9780822325994","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325994.jpg?v=1730494288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tough-love-9780822325994","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}