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Women’s Literary Culture and Late Medieval English Women's Writing, ed. with Diane Watt. Special issue of The Chaucer Review. Contains co-written Introduction by McAvoy and Watt (pp. 3-10) and journal article written solely by McA...
Liz Herbert McAvoy
51, Volume: 1
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This Special Issue challenges traditional notions of women's contribution to the English literary canon, arguing that medieval women's literary culture was crucial to the production and the shaping of wider literary culture and the canon during the Middle Ages and beyond.
| Published in: | 51 |
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| ISBN: | 0000000000 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylavania, US.
Penn State University Press
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22702 |
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| Abstract: |
This Special Issue challenges traditional notions of women's contribution to the English literary canon, arguing that medieval women's literary culture was crucial to the production and the shaping of wider literary culture and the canon during the Middle Ages and beyond. |
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Co-editor - Women’s Literary Culture and the Late Medieval English Canon with Diane Watt, with co-authored Introduction to special issue of The Chaucer Review (‘Medieval Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon’) and essay solely by Liz Herbert McAvoy, ‘”O der lady, be my help”: Women’s Visionary Writing and the Devotional Literary Canon |
| Keywords: |
Medieval Literature; Women's Writing; the Canon; Visionary Literature; Women's Literary Culture |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |