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Male Authors, Female Readers : Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature
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ISBN: 1501722085 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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"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.

Male authors, female readers : representation and subjectivity in Middle English devotional literature
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ISBN: 0801430380 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press

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Thematology --- Old English literature --- Mimesis in de literatuur --- Mimesis in literature --- Mimêsis dans la littérature --- Representation (Literature) --- Représentation (Littérature) --- Subjectiviteit in de literatuur --- Subjectivity in literature --- Subjectivité dans la littérature --- Voorstelling (Literatuur) --- Authorship --- -Mimesis in literature --- Women --- -Women and literature --- -Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- -Women --- -English prose literature --- -Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- English literature --- Devotional literature, English --- Devotional literature, Middle English --- English devotional literature, Middle --- Middle English devotional literature --- Sex differences --- Prayer-books and devotions --- -English --- -History --- History --- Male authors --- -History and criticism --- -Books and reading --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- English prose literature --- Mimesis in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Women and literature --- Sex differences. --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading --- Prayers and devotions --- -Sex differences --- Human females --- Male authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Prayers and devotions&delete& --- England --- Devotional literature [English ] (Middle) --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- English --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) - Men authors - History and criticism. --- English prose literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism. --- Women - Prayer-books and devotions - English - History. --- Women - England - Books and reading - History.

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