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Author:

Horner, Shari, 1961-

Title:

The discourse of enclosure : representing women in Old English literature / by Shari Horner.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

viii, 207 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.
Feminism and literature--England--History--To 1500.
Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Enclosure (Monasticism)--England--History--to 1500.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.

Contents:

The discourse of enclosure: inscribing the feminine in Old English literature -- Looking into enclosure in the Old English female lyrics -- Voices from the margins: women and textual enclosure in Beowulf -- Textual/sexual violence: the Old English Juliana and the Anglo-Saxon female reader -- Bodies and borders: the hermeneutics of enclosure in Ælfric's Lives of female saints -- Christina of Markyate and legacies of enclosure.

Series:

SUNY series in medieval studies.

ISBN:

9780791450109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791450104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791450093 (alk. paper)
0791450090 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45122536

LCCN:

00049237

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)