The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender

by R. Waugh

Overview

This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349351787
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/31/2012
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Waugh is an associate professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Contents Introduction: Clarissimum in Feminis The Female Patience Figure as Speaker The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Speaker The Female Patience Figure as Counterfeit The Female Patience Figure as Frozen Empress The Female Patience Figure at an Extreme The Female Patience Figure as Shrine Index