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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552771603321

Autore

Williams Tara <1975->

Titolo

Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / / Tara Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8142-7078-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 209 p. )

Collana

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

Disciplina

820.9/3522

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.