The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521796385 |
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Title | The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English PDF eBook |
Author | Lorna Sage |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1999-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521668132 |
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Lunger Knoppers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2009-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139828363 |
Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jodie Medd |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-12-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316453561 |
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Linda H. Peterson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2015-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107064848 |
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Barker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107087821 |
Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Scanlon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2009-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521841674 |
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.