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Inventing womanhood : gender and language in later Middle English writing / Tara Williams.

Author/creator Williams, Tara, 1975-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionviii, 209 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500 --History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Women and literature--History --To 1500.
Series Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
Interventions (Columbus, Ohio) UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-204) and index.
LCCN 2010030318
ISBN9780814211519 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814211518 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814292525 (cd)
ISBN0814292526 (cd)

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