This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender. She analyses the writings of Marvell, Waller, Herrick and the Caroline elegists, as well as in newsbooks and pamphlets, and pays particular attention to Milton's complex responses to the dilemmas of male identity. Purkiss reveals the irrational ideological forces governing the way seventeenth-century writers understood the state, the monarchy, the battlefield and the epic hero in relation to contested contemporary ideas of masculinity. A History of Food in England, HarperCollins. 2006, published as The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain, Basic Books (Boulder, CO), 2006. By blending the political and the personal, Diane Purkiss illuminates both the ideologies behind the English Civil War and the fears of those who fought in it the men who were destroyed by the conflict and those, such as Oliver Cromwell, who were defined by it. Historians have tended to emphasise a model of human action in the Civil War based on the idea of the human self as rational animal. Purkiss, Diane 1961(Tobias Druitt, a joint pseudonym) PERSONAL:Born June 30, 1961, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia immigrated to.

In this innovative study, first published in 2005, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention. The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain Diane Purkiss.

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