| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 2. Wife of Bath and the painting of lions -- Afterword / Mary Carruthers -- 3. Engendering pity in the Franklin's Tale / Felicity Riddy -- 4. Sexual economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe / Sheila Delany -- 5. Mysticism and hysteria: the histories of Margery Kempe and Anna O. / Julia Long -- 6. Body politics: engendering medieval cycle drama / Ruth Evans -- 7. Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid: re-envisioning female personifications in Piers Plowman / Colette Murphy -- 8. Virgin's Tale / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- 9. Reincarnations of Griselda: contexts for the Clerk's Tale? / Lesley Johnson -- 10. 'Taking the gold out of Egypt': the art of reading as a woman / Susan Schibanoff |
| Summary |
"This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, provides an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. The essays address a diversity of texts and feminist approaches and are framed by a substantial and illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of further reading which offers preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time." "Works and writers covered include: Chaucer; Margery Kempe; Christine de Pisan; the Katherine Group of Saints' lives; Langland's Piers Plowman; and medieval cycle drama." "Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
English literature Special subjects Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Women
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Historiography
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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English literature -- Middle English
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Feminism and literature
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Sex role in literature
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, Ruth, 1954-
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Johnson, Lesley, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0203976797 |
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9780203976791 |
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041505818X |
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9780415058186 |
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9780415058193 |
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0415058198 |
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9786610144884 |
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6610144885 |
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1134931816 |
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9781134931811 |
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1280144882 |
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9781280144882 |
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1134931808 |
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9781134931804 |
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