Gender, Writing, and Performance Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France 1440-1538

Zusatztext one of the most well-articulated and thoughtfully conceived contributions to scholarship in this field Informationen zum Autor Helen J. Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her research interests straddle the late medieval and early modern periods, looking at the poetics of vernacular literature between 1350 and 1550. She is currently working on a monograph-length study, Understanding Imagination in Medieval French Literature, a critical edition of Jacques Milet's Forest de Tristesse, and an anthology of pro-feminine writings against the Roman de la rose, Les Femmes et la 'Rose', XVe-XVIe siècles. Klappentext Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems. Zusammenfassung Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems.

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• Authors: Helen J. Swift, Helen J. (University (CUF) Lecturer in Medieval French at the University of Oxford Swift, Swift Helen J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.05.2008
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918
• EAN: 9780199232239
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923223-9
• Pages: 285
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, ART / Women Artists, History of Art, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies: women, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval