The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender

By Robin Waugh

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349351784
• ISBN13: 9781349351787
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"