The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature
Development, Duplication, and Gender| By: | R. Waugh |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230391864 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230391871 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.