Feminist readings in Middle English literature : the Wife of Bath and all her sect
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Feminist readings in Middle English literature : the Wife of Bath and all her sect
Routledge, 1994
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering 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
* Medieval cycle drama
Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction, Ruth Evans, Lesley Johnson
- Chapter 2 The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions, Mary Carruthers
- Chapter 3 Engendering Pity in the Franklin's Tale, Felicity Riddy
- Chapter 4 Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the Book of Margery Kempe, Sheila Delany
- Chapter 5 Mysticism and Hysteria, Julia Long
- Chapter 6 Body Politics, Ruth Evans
- Chapter 7 Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid, Colette Murphy
- Chapter 8 The Virgin's Tale, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
- Chapter 9 Reincarnations of Griselda, Lesley Johnson
- Chapter 10 'Taking the Gold out of Egypt', Schibanoff Susan
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