9780199232239 - gender, writing, and performance: men defending women in late medieval france, 1440-1538 (oxford modern languages & literature monographs) von swift, helen j. (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems. Series: Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs. Num Pages: 304 pages,…

Hardcover. dj. Illustrated. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a late…