Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
x, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Series |
The new middle ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Contents |
The inner life of women in medieval romance literature / Jeff Rider -- Order, anarchy, and emotion in the old French Philomena / Karen G. Casebier -- What was she thinking? Ysolt on the edge / Brîndusa E. Grigoriu -- Moral posturing: virtue in Christine de Pisan's Livre de trois vertus / Sharon C. Mitchell -- Gesture, emotion, and humanity: depictions of Melusine in the Upton House Bearsted fragments / Tania M. Colwell -- Is she angry or just sad?: grief and sorrow in the songs of the Trobairitz / Hannie van Horen Verhoosel -- Between concealment and eloquence: the idea of the ideal woman in medieval Provencal literature / Jennifer Rudin -- Spiritual and biological mothering in Bereco's Vida de Santa Oria / Emily C. Francomano -- Writing as resistance: self and survival in Leonor Lopez de Cordoba and Teresa de Cartagena / Victoria Rivera-Cordero -- Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: the limits of female interiority in the Knight's tale / Jamie Friedman -- In Laura's shadow: casting female humanists as Petrarchan beloveds in Quattrocento letters / Aileen A. Feng. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"The essays collected here explore the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives composed in and for them. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters (both historical and fictional) and the emotional standards and styles that a community proposed for women through its narratives"--Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Romances -- History and criticism.
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Emotions in literature.
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Added Author |
Rider, Jeff, 1954-
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Friedman, Jamie.
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ISBN |
9780230105140 (hardback) |
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0230105149 (hardback) |
Standard No. |
40019859117 |
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