Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature - Couverture rigide

Bartlett, Anne Clark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801430380 ISBN 13 : 9780801430381

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1995

Synopsis

"Holy men despise women...and view them as foul and sticking dirt in the road," asserst the male author of the fifteenth-century Book to a Mother. Middle English devotional writings reflect shades of mysogony ranging from the blatant to the subtle, yet these texts were among the most popular literature know to the earliest generation of English women readers.

In the first book to examine this paradox, Anne Clark Bartlett considers why medieval women enjoyed such male-authored works as Speculum Devotorum, The Tree, The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost, and Contemplations on the Dread and Love of God. Demonstrating that these texts actually provided alternative--and more appealing--notions of gender than those authorized by the Church, Bartlett redefines women's participation in medieval culture in terms of far greater agency and empowerment than have generally been acknowledged.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Clark Bartlett is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801430380
• ISBN 13: 9780801430381
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible