Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / / Tara Williams
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| Autore: |
Williams Tara <1975->
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| Titolo: |
Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / / Tara Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 209 p. ) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/3522 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inventing Womanhood |
| ISBN: | 0-8142-7078-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910552771603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Interventions : new studies in medieval culture.