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Women and Literature in Britain, 11501500
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This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also 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. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.
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Cambridge University Press; April 1993
276 pages; ISBN 9780511878428
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276 pages; ISBN 9780511878428
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Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Collections of English literature > By period
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Literary history and criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Women authors
- Literary Criticism > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism > Women Authors
- Social Science > Gender Studies
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0511878427
9780511878428
9780521400183