Inventing Womanhood Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
2011.
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| Series: | Interventions : new studies in medieval culture.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649809706719 |
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.
