Gender, poetry, and the form of thought in later medieval literature : essays in honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson /

"Dedicated to the scholarship of Elizabeth Robertson, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature is a collection of essays that explore how gender in medieval English literature intersects with philosophy, poetry, history, and religion"--

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Other Authors: Robertson, Elizabeth Ann, 1951- (honouree.), Jahner, Jennifer (Editor), Nelson, Ingrid, 1975- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bethlehem, [Pennsylvania] : Lanham, Maryland : Lehigh University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Form of Thought / Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson - Part I: Form and Knowing. Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness in Late Medieval Dream Visions / Jamie Taylor
  • Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in Troilus and Criseyde / Stephanie Trigg
  • Voluntarism and the Self in Piers Plowman / Robert Pasnau
  • Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of God / Kate Crassons
  • Part II: Material Poetics. Both "Gostly Sense" and "Amerouse Sentensce": The Nightingale's Resurrection as Hybrid Text / Amy N. Vines
  • Middle English Verse Acrostics: A Survey / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards
  • The Landscapes of Pearl: Poetry and Theology / Ad Putter
  • Part III: Historicizing Gender. Disrupting Medieval Marriage in Anglo-Norman Women's Writing: Clemence of Barking's Life of Saint Catherine, Marie's Lift of Saint Audrey, and Marie de France's Eliduc / Roberta Krueger
  • Three Medieval Visitors to Rome and the Women They Found There / C. David Benson and Pamela J. Benson
  • The Not Yet Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale / James Simpson.