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Sheila Delany.
Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology.
Publisher: Manchester U.P., 1990.
Series: Cultural Politics.
ISBN 0719030463.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Bell & Bain, Glasgow.
Size: 137×215×13mm.
Page count: xiii, 191pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are a bit grubby and scuffed, with some wear at the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 329g.

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Collects eleven essays, mainly revised from previous collections, with some new material.

Contents:
Heresy & alchemy as medieval versions of Utopia;
Late medieval attack on analogical thought;
Politics of allegory in the 14th century;
Havelok the Dane;
Gender & the anxiety of influence in 2 late-medieval texts [Legend of Good Women & Cité des dames];
Ambiguous example of Christine de Pizan;
Clerks & quiting in The Reeve’s Tale;
Strategies of silence in the Wife of Bath’s recital;
Politics & the paralysis of poetic imagination in The Physician’s Tale;
The anti-popular Nun’s Priest’s Tale;
Women, nature & language — Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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