Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Tara.
Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing
- Published
- Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- vii, 209 pp.
- Description
- Argues that Middle English writers employ gendered terms at moments when they are probing new ideas about women's roles; writers "invented womanhood" to describe women's experiences beyond their relation to men. KnT and ClT use gendered language to examine how Emelye, Hippolyta, and Grisilde test whether women can be simultaneously powerful and feminine. Chaucer uses "gendered language to examine how characters reconcile feminine virtues and social power." Comments on FranT, MLT, PrT, SNT, WBT, ABC, Anel, BD, HF, LGW, PF, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Language and Word Studies