Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing /
Williams, Tara, 1975-
Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / Tara Williams. - 1 online resource (288 pages). - Interventions: new studies in medieval culture . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
9780814270783
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
English literature--Middle English.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
Femmes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Maternite dans la litterature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Women and literature--History--To 1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / Tara Williams. - 1 online resource (288 pages). - Interventions: new studies in medieval culture . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
9780814270783
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
English literature--Middle English.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
Femmes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Maternite dans la litterature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Women and literature--History--To 1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.