Male Authors, Female Readers : Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature

"Holy men despise women...and view them as foul and sticking dirt in the road," asserst the male author of the fifteenth-century Book to a Mother. Middle English devotional writings reflect shades of mysogony ranging from the blatant to the subtle, yet these texts were among the most popul...
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Bartlett, Anne Clark - 1960- [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press ; 2018

©1995

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Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Authorship, Sex differences

Devotional literature, English (Middle), Male authors, History and criticism

English prose literature, History and criticism, Middle English, 1100-1500

Mimesis in literature

Subjectivity in literature

Women and literature, History, England

Women, Books and reading, History, England

Women, Prayers and devotions, History and criticism

Devotional literature, English (Middle).

English prose literature.

Women.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

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1 Online-Ressource

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ISBN:

978-1-5017-2208-0

DOI / URN:

10.7591/9781501722080

Katalog-ID:

1654736791

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