Women and Literature in Britain, 1150 1500 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521576208)

This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture and their representation in literature in late medieval Britain. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh and Latin, and addresses such issues as orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers, and examines the representation of women within different literary genres--both secular and religious--their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints.

Author: Alastair Minnis
ISBN-10: 0521576202
ISBN-13: 9780521576208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/12/1996
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.90w x 0.57d