Women and Literature in Britain, 11501500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521576208
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Sociology; Middle English Literature; Women In English Literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies; Women and literature--Great Britain--History
First sentence: Assumptions about the role of women in medieval romance have often sprung from a supposition that their general lack of power and influence in medieval society must necessarily be reflected by powerlessness in that society's fiction.