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The discourse of enclosure : representing women in Old English literature / by Shari Horner.
Van Pelt Library PR179.W65 H67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horner, Shari, 1961-
- Series:
- SUNY series in medieval studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Feminism and literature.
- History.
- England.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Enclosure (Monasticism)--England--History--To 1500.
- Enclosure (Monasticism).
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction The Discourse of Enclosure: Inscribing the Feminine in Old English Literature 1
- Chapter 1 Looking Into Enclosure in the Old English Female Lyrics 29
- Chapter 2 Voices From the Margins: Women and Textual Enclosure in Beowulf 65
- Chapter 3 Textual/Sexual Violence: The Old English Juliana and the Anglo-Saxon Female Reader 101
- Chapter 4 Bodies and Borders: The Hermeneutics of Enclosure in Elfric's Lives of Female Saints 131
- Conclusion Christina of Markyate and Legacies of Enclosure 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791450090
- 0791450104
- OCLC:
- 45122536
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