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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Interventions: new studies in medieval culture | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814270783
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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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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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