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The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender 2012th Edition
Author(s): R. Waugh (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 31 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 247 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230391869
- ISBN-13: 9780230391864
Book Description
This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.
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About the Author
Robin Waugh is an associate professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.
