The Book Of Margery Kempe
Subtitle: Scholarship, Community, & Criticism
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780820474519
Subjects: Christian mysticism; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; British Isles; General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Book of Margery Kempe; Christian literature, English (Middle); Christian women; Criticism and interpretation; England; Feminism and literature; Historiography; History; History and criticism; Kempe, Margery,; Religious life; Theory, etc; b. ca. 1373
Description: "The history of The Book Margery Kempe from its first production in 1934 is also part of the history of English literary studies. Marea Mitchell traces some of the stories behind the proliferation of productions since then, including the involvement of Hope Emily Allen and other independent women scholars, popular receptions of the Book in World War II, and current productions that locate it as part of a medieval literary canon. Working from a cultural materialist perspective, Mitchell focuses on the materiality of the text itself and of the bodies of scholarship that have arisen around it."--BOOK JACKET.