Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing

by Tara Williams

Book Overview

In Inventing Womanhood, Tara Williamsinvestigates new ideas about womanhood that arose in fourteenth-century Britain and evolved throughout the fifteenth century. In the aftermath of the plague and the substantial cultural shifts of the late 1300s, female roles expanded temporarily. As a result, the dominant models of maiden, wife, and widow could no longer adequately describe women's roles and lives. Middle English writers responded by experimenting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257631
• ISBN13: 9780814257630
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"