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Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing / Tara Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Tara, 1975-
- Series:
- Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Women and literature--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 209 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814211519
- 0814211518
- 9780814292525
- 0814292526
- OCLC:
- 651487442
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