Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041505818X ISBN 13: 9780415058186

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time.
Works and writers covered include:
* Chaucer
* Margery Kempe
* Christine de Pisan
* The Katherine group of Saints' Lives
* Langland's Piers Plowman
* Medieval cycle drama
Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.

About this title

Review:

..."instructors will applaud the book's genuine commitment to teaching both canonical and non-canonical texts from theoretically dynamic perspectives.." -"De Philosophia, Winter 1996

Synopsis:

This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, combines key essays in the field with specially commissioned material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, an introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of further reading, offering preliminary guidance to the novice reader of gender and medieval literature. Works and writers covered include: Chaucer; Margery Kempe; Christine de Pisan; the Katherine group of Saints' Lives; Langland's "Piers Plowman"; and medieval cycle drama. Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 041505818X
• ISBN 13: 9780415058186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Evans Dr Ruth, Evans Ruth, Johnson Leslie