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UNINA9910552771603321 |
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Williams Tara <1975-> |
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Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / / Tara Williams |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 209 p. ) |
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Collana |
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Interventions: new studies in medieval culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-204) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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