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Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing /

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Main Author: Williams, Tara, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
English literature > Middle English.
Litterature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Maternite dans la litterature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Women and literature > History > To 1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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