Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect

Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect

by Dr Ruth Evans (Author), Leslie Johnson (Author), Leslie Johnson (Author), Ruth Evans (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 25 Aug 1994

ISBN 10: 0415058198
ISBN 13: 9780415058193

Media Reviews
... instructors will applaud the book's genuine commitment to teaching both canonical and non-canonical texts from theoretically dynamic perspectives..
- De Philosophia, Winter 1996