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Sheila Fisher and Janet E. Halley, eds.
Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings.
Published Knoxville: Tennessee U.P., 1989.
ISBN 0870495917.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 146×221×26mm.
Page count: ix,278pp inc. 3 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: a little wear on the dustjacket, including a small rip at the top of its spine; a mild bump on the top outside corner of the front board.

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Weight without packaging: 583g.

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Contents:
Fisher & Halley, Problem of women’s absence in late medieval & renaissance texts;
Krueger, Appropriation of woman in 4 Old French romances of the “Cycle de la Gageure”;
Hansen, Feminization of men in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women;
Fisher, Taken men & token women in Sir Gawain & the Green Knight;
Robertson, Feminine spirituality of the Ancrene Wisse;
Cruz, Pícara as prostitute in the Spanish female picaresque novel;
Waller, The Empire’s new clothes — refashioning the renaissance;
Halley, Anne Donne, John Donne, & the sexual poetics of textual exchange;
Cholakian, Identity of the reader in de Gournay’s Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne [1594];
Maurer, Reading Ben Jonson’s Queens.

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