Body against soul
Subtitle: gender and sowlehele in Middle English allegory
By: Masha Raskolnikov.
Series: Interventions : new studies in medieval culture; Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814211021; 9780814292006
Subjects: Allegory; Body and soul in literature; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thought enfleshed : philosophy and psychology as figured in Latin allegory; title: Allegorizing the split self : a Middle English debate between the body and the soul; title: "The soul is the prison of the body" : pedagogy, punishment, and self-love in a Middle English debate; title: Defending the female self : "Sawles warde" and sowlehele; title: Promising the female, delivering the male : transformations of gender in Piers Plowman.