Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Tara, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2011.
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:
To 1500
Women and literature > History > To 1500.
Motherhood in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Maternité dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
English literature > Middle English.
Women and literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of womanhood
  • Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood
  • Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis
  • Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid
  • Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe
  • The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.

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