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The discourse of enclosure :

(Number (ISBN

0791450090

(Number (ISBN

0791450104

(Number (ISBN

0791490440

(Number (ISBN

9780791450093

(Number (ISBN

9780791450109

(Number (ISBN

9780791490440

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b784796

Title Proper

The discourse of enclosure :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

representing women in Old English literature /

First Statement of Responsibility

by Shari Horner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 207 pages).

Series Title

SUNY series in medieval studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.

Text of Note

"Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers - literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, and spatial - all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions - that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature."--Jacket.

Title

Discourse of enclosure.

International Standard Book Number

0791450090

Enclosure (Monasticism)-- History-- To 1500.

English literature-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.

Feminism and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.

Women and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.

Women-- England-- History-- Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women in literature.

Clôture (Monachisme)-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.

Féminisme et littérature-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.

Femmes-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)

Femmes dans la littérature.

Femmes et littérature-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.

Littérature anglaise-- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)-- Histoire et critique.

Altenglisch

Enclosure (Monasticism)

English literature-- Old English.

English Literature.

English.

Feminism and literature.

Frau.

Frau.

Geschichte

Languages & Literatures.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literatur

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Women-- Middle Ages.

Altenglisch.

England.

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LIT-- 004120

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Edition

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Book number

Class number

System Code

Horner, Shari,1961-

Date of Transaction

20201206225209.0

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[Book]

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