The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2012

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ISBN-13:
9780230391888
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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