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Author:

Williams, Tara, 1975-

Title:

Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing / Tara Williams.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 209 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Women and literature--History--To 1500.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

ISBN:

0814292526 (cd)
9780814292525 (cd)
0814211518 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211519 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)651487442

LCCN:

2010030318

Locations:

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

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)