Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526146618)

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.

Author: Laura Kalas
ISBN-10: 1526146614
ISBN-13: 9781526146618
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d