Writing gender and genre in medieval literature
Subtitle: approaches to old and Middle English texts
By: edited by Elaine Treharne for the English Association.
Contributors: Treharne, Elaine M.; English Association.
Series: Essays and studies 2002,; v. 55; Essays and studies (London, England : 1950); v.55.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer; D.S.Brewer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Sex role in literature; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Literary form
Other titles: Writing gender & genre in medieval literature
Description: The essays in this annual English Association volume provide useful examples of how the conventions behind and the expectations evoked by literary modes and genres help to shape what purports to be an entirely essential and/or socially constructed aspect of identity of the 'he', 'she', or 'I' of the literary text. Ranging across materials from Old English Biblical poetry and hagiography to the late Middle English romances and fabliaux, the essays are united by a commitment to a variety of traditional scholarly methodologies. But each examines afresh an important aspect of what it means to be man or woman, husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, devotee or lover in the context of particular kinds of medieval literary texts.--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker; title: Gender and heroism in the Old English Judith / Hugh Magennis; title: Remembering Veronica in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Swan; title: 'Born to thraldom and penance' : wives and mothers in Middle English romance / David Salte; title: Rough girls and squeamish boys : the trouble with Absolon in The miller's tale / Greg Walker; title: The stereotype confirmed? Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Elaine Treharne; title: 'Cursed folk of Herodes al new' : supersessionist typology and Chaucer's prioress / Anne Marie D'Arcy.