1st Edition

Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect

Edited By Dr Ruth Evans, Ruth Evans, Leslie Johnson Copyright 1995
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time.
    Works and writers covered include:
    * Chaucer
    * Margery Kempe
    * Christine de Pisan
    * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives
    * Langland's Piers Plowman
    * Medieval cycle drama
    Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Ruth Evans, Lesley Johnson; Chapter 2 The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions, Mary Carruthers; Chapter 3 Engendering Pity in the Franklin’s Tale, Felicity Riddy; Chapter 4 Sexual Economics, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and the Book of Margery Kempe, Sheila Delany; Chapter 5 Mysticism and Hysteria, Julia Long; Chapter 6 Body Politics, Ruth Evans; Chapter 7 Lady Holy Church and Meed the Maid, Colette Murphy; Chapter 8 The Virgin’s Tale, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne; Chapter 9 Reincarnations of Griselda, Lesley Johnson; Chapter 10 ‘Taking the Gold out of Egypt’, Schibanoff Susan;

    Biography

    Ruth Evans is a lecturer in the School of English Studies, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Wales College of Cardiff.,
    Lesley Johnson is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

    'This is an excellen antholopgy, particularly good references and a fine annotated bibliography.' - - AUMLA