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Manhood and the Duel

Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture

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  • © 2003

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  1. Jennifer Low
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Duellist as Hero

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 11-39

  4. The Art of Fence and the Sense of Masculine Space

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 41-70

  5. Sexual Status and the Combat

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 71-92

  6. Misperceiving Masculinity, Misreading the Duel

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 93-134

  7. When Women Fight

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 135-167

  8. Conclusion

    • Jennifer Low
    Pages 169-170

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-238
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About this book

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.

About the author

JENNIFER LOW is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.

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