Women's power in late medieval romance /

A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vines, Amy N. (Amy Noelle) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2011]
Series:Studies in medieval romance.
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Romances > History and criticism.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Medieval.
Romances
Literature, Medieval
Women in literature
Mittelenglisch
Ritterroman
Frau
Frau > Motiv
Macht
Einfluss
Geschlechterrolle
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prophecy as social influence : Cassandra, Anne Neville, and the Corpus Christi manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde
  • The science of female power in John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes
  • A women's "crafte" : sexual and chivalric patronage in Partonope of Blois
  • Creative revisions : competing figures of the patroness in Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal.

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