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Title The inner life of women in medieval romance literature : grief, guilt, and hypocrisy / edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809.933522 In6 2011    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series The new middle ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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.
Women in literature.
Romances -- History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Added Author Rider, Jeff, 1954-
Friedman, Jamie.
ISBN 9780230105140 (hardback)
0230105149 (hardback)
Standard No. 40019859117

 
    
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