Introduction [Colloquium: Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon: Gender and Genre]

Author / Editor
Miles, Laura Saetveit.
Watt, Diane..

Title
Introduction [Colloquium: Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon: Gender and Genre]

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 285-93.

Description
Introduces the six essays in this cluster, clarifying distinctions between literary canon formation and literary archive, with particular attention to women's devotional writing and reading in Middle English. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon: Gender and Genre under Alternative Title.
Chaucer,

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism