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Inventing Womanhood [electronic resource] : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / Tara Williams

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Williams, Tara, 1975-
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (viii, 209 p. )
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Contents
The origins of womanhood -- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood -- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis -- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid -- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe -- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.
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9780814270783
0814270786
9780814211519 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814211518 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814292525 (cd)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-204) and index.
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