Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages - Brossura

Davis, Isabel

 
9780521142175: Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages

Sinossi

Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain.

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Recensione

Review of the hardback: '... Davis writes in a clear, carefully measured style ...' Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest University

Review of the hardback: '[Davis] contributes her own fresh and insightful readings of significant and influential literary texts to our current discussions of masculinities and male textual self-fashionings in late medieval England.' The Medieval Review

Review of the hardback: 'Intellectually powerful, historically erudite, and critically trenchant.' Speculum

Descrizione del libro

Isabel Davis identifies a medieval discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living in readings of Langland, Usk, Gower, Chaucer and Hoccleve. Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain.

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9780521866378: Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521866375 ISBN 13:  9780521866378
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007
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