1st Edition
Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Ruth Evans, Lesley Johnson; Chapter 2 The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions, Mary Carruthers; Chapter 3 Engendering Pity in the Franklin’s Tale, Felicity Riddy; Chapter 4 Sexual Economics, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and the Book of Margery Kempe, Sheila Delany; Chapter 5 Mysticism and Hysteria, Julia Long; Chapter 6 Body Politics, Ruth Evans; Chapter 7 Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid, Colette Murphy; Chapter 8 The Virgin’s Tale, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne; Chapter 9 Reincarnations of Griselda, Lesley Johnson; Chapter 10 ‘Taking the Gold out of Egypt’, Schibanoff Susan;
Biography
Ruth Evans is a lecturer in the School of English Studies, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Wales College of Cardiff.,
Lesley Johnson is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds.
'This is an excellen antholopgy, particularly good references and a fine annotated bibliography.' - - AUMLA
