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Title Feminist readings in Middle English literature : the Wife of Bath and all her sect / edited by Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)
Contents Introduction / Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson -- The wife of Bath and the painting of lions / Mary Carruthers -- Engendering pity in the Franklin's Tale / Felicity Riddy -- Sexual economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe / Shelia Delany -- Mysticism and hysteria: the histories of Margery Kempe and Anna O. / Julia Long -- Body politics: engendering medieval cycle drama / Ruth Evans -- Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid: re-envisioning female personifications in Piers Plowman / Colette Murphy -- The virgin's tale / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Reincarnations of Griselda: contexts for the Clerk's Tale? / Lesley Johnson -- 'Taking the gold out of Egypt': the art of reading as a woman / Susan Schibanoff
Summary "This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, provides an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. The essays address a diversity of texts and feminist approaches and are framed by a substantial and illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of further reading which offers 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; and medieval cycle drama." "Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
SUBJECT Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast (OCoLC)fst01356321
Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- England -- History
Feminism and literature -- England -- History
Sex role in literature.
English literature -- Middle English.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature.
England.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Evans, Ruth, 1954-
Johnson, Lesley, 1957-
ISBN 9780203976791
0203976797
9780415058186
041505818X
9780415058193
0415058198