Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature

Jackson library has Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature: The Pen and the Sword available in both print and as an e-book. According to her website, author Jennifer Feather's, an assistant professor in the Department of English at UNCG, "scholarly and pedagogical interests include theories of violence and trauma, theories of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century British historical writing, interdisciplinary and historical approaches to literature, and early modern anatomies."

When describing Dr. Feather's book, Palgrave Publishing explains, "By examining competing depictions of combat in sixteenth-century texts such as Arthurian romance and early modern medical texts, this original study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject."

When reviewing Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature: The Pen and the Sword, Patricia Cahill, associate professor of English, Emory University said, "Feather's compelling book considers the centrality of armed combat and physical suffering to English Renaissance literature. Arguing that medieval understandings of corporeality and combat functioned as crucial materials for English self-definition, she offers bold readings of texts drawn from a wide array of genres, including drama, poetry, romance, epic, and chronicle history. An impressive and theoretically sophisticated work."