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100 1 $aRobertson, Elizabeth Ann,$d1951-
245 10 $aEarly English devotional prose and the female audience /$cElizabeth Robertson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c©1990.
300 $ax, 227 pages :$b1 illustration ;$c24 cm
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505 00 $gAcknowledgments --$gChapter 1.$tThe implications of illiteracy fort he development of Middle English literature --$gChapter 2.$tAn anchorhold of her own : the anchoress in thirteenth-century England --$gChapter 3.$tmedieval views of female spirituality --$gChapter 4.$tThe rule of the body : the female spirituality of the Ancrene Wisse --$gChapter 5.$tThe perfect marriage : Hali Meidenhad --$g6.$tThe triumph of female spirituality : the lives of St. Katherine, St. Margaret, and St. Juliana --$gChapter 7.$tAllegory and the emotions in "Sawles Warde" --$gChapter 8.$tThe AB texts and the Anglo-Saxon tradition --$gChapter 9.$tThe female reader and twelfth-century notions of the physical --$gChapter 10.$tThe question of female style. --$gNotes --$gList of works cited --$gIndex.
520 $a"After the Norman conquest, women and the lower classes became the primary audiences for English, as opposed to Latin or French, literature. Among the works written for female audiences are the hitherto neglected AB texts: three female saints' lives, a tract on virginity, a homily, and a guide for anchoresses. In this lucid, innovative study, Elizabeth Robertson shows that the AB texts were written in an effective experiential style that distinguished them from other spiritual works of the period. Key characteristics of this special style--nonteleological structre, pervasive use of concrete imagery, and thematic focus on the female body--have been viewed by some as hallmarks of women's writing more generally. Combining feminist theory with critical skill and an impressive command of Old and Middle English materials, the author argues, to the contrary, that in the thirteenth-century England this style was created by educated male writers in accord with their beliefs about nature and needs of marginal social groups. Beginning with the history and motivations of female anchorites and surveying medieval philosophy and theology in relation to gender theory, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the AB texts and then details their debt to earlier English vernacular works and to the continental theological movements that increasingly emphasized physical experience and matter. The result is an exciting, learned account of the feminization of early English prose."--Book jacket flaps.
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