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The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

Development, Duplication, and Gender

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction: Clarissimum in Feminis

    • Robin Waugh
    Pages 1-36
  3. The Female Patience Figure as Speaker

    • Robin Waugh
    Pages 37-74
  4. The Female Patience Figure as Counterfeit

    • Robin Waugh
    Pages 113-120
  5. The Female Patience Figure at an Extreme

    • Robin Waugh
    Pages 131-156
  6. The Female Patience Figure as Shrine

    • Robin Waugh
    Pages 157-173
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 175-230

About this book

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.

About the author

Robin Waugh is an associate professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature

  • Book Subtitle: Development, Duplication, and Gender

  • Authors: Robin Waugh

  • Series Title: The New Middle Ages

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391871

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Robin Waugh 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-39186-4Published: 31 October 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35178-7Published: 31 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-39187-1Published: 12 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2945-5936

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, Literary History, Feminism

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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