Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions

by Justin Hall

Book Overview

Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions , a contextual and historical study of the Book , focuses on Kempe's ability to construct a fiction that exploits the conventions of sacred biography and devotional prose as the means of scrutinizing the very foundations of fifteenth-century English society. Thus, though the Book is cast into a communally sanctioned "female" form, Kempe uses the very conventions that tended to define that form to test its outer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271010312
• ISBN13: 9780271010311
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"