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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501722080
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501722080
035 _a(DE-B1597)514804
035 _a(OCoLC)1083625264
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aPR275.R4
_bB37 1995
072 7 _aLIT011000
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082 0 4 _a823/.309382
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBartlett, Anne Clark
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMale Authors, Female Readers :
_bRepresentation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature /
_cAnne Clark Bartlett.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©1995
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_t1. Reading Medieval Women Reading Devotional Literature --
_tII. Gendering and Regendering: The Case of De institutione inclusarum --
_tIII. ”Letters of Love”: Feminine Courtesy and Religious Instruction --
_tIV. ”Ghostly Sister in Jesus Christ”: Spiritual Friendship and Sexual Politics --
_tV. ”I Would Have Been One of Them”: Translation, Contemplation, and Gender --
_tAfterword: Beyond Misogyny(?) --
_tAppendix: A Descriptive List of Extant Books Owned by Medieval English Nuns and Convents --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _a"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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAuthorship
_xSex differences.
650 0 _aDevotional literature, English (Middle)
_xMale authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish prose literature
_yMiddle English, 1100-1500
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMimesis in literature.
650 0 _aSubjectivity in literature.
650 0 _aWomen and literature
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen
_xBooks and reading
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen
_xPrayers and devotions
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMedieval & Renaissance Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722080
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722080
856 4 2 _3Cover
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