Title: Writing gender and 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.
Subjects: English literature, Sex role in literature, History and criticism, Literary form, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, English poetry, history and criticism, old english, ca. 450-1100, Poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Textual Criticism, Veil of Veronica, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Genres littéraires, Middle English, Old English, Letterkunde, Oudengels, Middelengels, Literaire genres, Sekseverschillen, Altenglisch, Geschlechterrolle, Literatur, Mittelenglisch, Aufsatzsammlung, Miller's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey), Prioress's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey), Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Time periods: Old English, ca. 450-1100, Middle English, 1100-1500