The inner life of women in medieval romance literature
Subtitle: grief, guilt, and hypocrisy
By: edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman
Series: New middle ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230105140
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; HISTORY / Social History; History and criticism; Medieval Literature; HISTORY / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian; Emotions in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Romances; Women in literature
Description: "The essays collected here explore the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives composed in and for them. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters (both historical and fictional) and the emotional standards and styles that a community proposed for women through its narratives"--