Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500
Carol M. Meale
This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture and their representation in literature in late medieval Britain. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh and Latin, and addresses such issues as orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers, and examines the representation of women within different literary genres--both secular and religious--their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints.
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Year:
1996
Edition:
New Ed
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
276
ISBN 10:
0521576202
ISBN 13:
9780521576208
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
File:
PDF, 14.91 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996