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This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time.
Works and writers covered include:
• Chaucer
• Margery Kempe
• Christine de Pisan
• The Katherine group of Saints' Lives
• Langland's Piers Plowman
• Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.
| List of contributors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Wife of Bath and the painting of lions | 22 |
| Afterword | 39 | |
| 3 | Engendering pity in the Franklin's Tale | 54 |
| 4 | Sexual economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe | 72 |
| 5 | Mysticism and hysteria: the histories of Margery Kempe and Anna O. | 88 |
| 6 | Body politics: engendering medieval cycle drama | 112 |
| 7 | Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid: re-envisioning female personifications in Piers Plowman | 140 |
| 8 | The Virgin's Tale | 165 |
| 9 | Reincarnations of Griselda: contexts for the Clerk's Tale? | 195 |
| 10 | 'Taking the gold out of Egypt': the art of reading as a woman | 221 |
| List of further reading | 246 | |
| Index | 252 |
Overview
This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time.
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