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[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature. Womens Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter
These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.
About the Author
BRITTON J. HARWOOD teaches at Miami University and is author of Piers Plowman and the Problem of Belief. GILLIAN R. OVERING is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and is author of Language, Sign, and Gender in beowulf and co-author of Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Northern Medieval World.
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Class and Gender in Early English Literature : Intersections
author
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Harwood, Britton J.
publisher
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Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0253208580
print isbn13
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9780253208583
ebook isbn13
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9780585000893
language
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English
subject
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature, Literature and society--England--History, Civilization, Medieval, in lite
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PR275.S63C57 1994eb
ddc
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820.9/355
subject
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English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature, Literature and society--England--History, Civilization, Medieval, in lite
Class and Gender in Early English Literature
Intersections
EDITED BY Britton J. Harwood AND Gillian R. Overing
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis
1994 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved
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Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Class and gender in Early English literature: intersections / edited by Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-253-32734-2. ISBN 0-253-20858-0 (pbk.) 1. English literatureMiddle English, 11001500History and criticism. 2. English literatureOld English, ca. 4501100History and criticism. 3. Literature and societyEnglandHistory. 4. Social classes in literature. 5. Sex role in literature. I. Harwood, Britton J. II. Overing, Gillian R., date. PR275.S63C57 1994 820.9'355dc20 93-14471
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Contents
Foreword
Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing
vii
Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Politics of War in the Old English Judith
Karma Lochrie
1
Wonfeax wale: Ideology and Figuration in the Sexual Riddles of the Exeter Book
John W. Tanke
21
Exile and the Semiosis of Gender in Old English Elegies
Helen T. Bennett
43
Class, Gender, Medieval Criticism, and Piers Plowman
David Aers
59
Construction of Class, Family, and Gender in Some Middle English Popular Romances
Harriet E. Hudson
76
Building Class and Gender into Chaucer's Hous
Britton J. Harwood
95
Gender and Exchange in Piers Plowman
Clare A. Lees
112
The Pardoner's Tale, the Pervert, and the Price of Order in Chaucer's World
Allen J. Frantzen
131
Page vi
Contributors
149
Index
151
Page vii
Foreword
Britton J. Harwood
Gillian R. Overing
This volume is part of an ongoing conversationamong a group of medievalists and a variety of perspectives. Some of the writers in this collection have worked and talked together before, and others came together at the 26th International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University with the express purpose of developing a working exchange as a group. When we requested three consecutive sessions at the Congress, we had in mind a kind of mini-seminar, a process of exchange and a development of viewpointsa series of intersections. We had asked participants to be prepared to address issues of class if they had focused on gender, and vice versa, and to think in terms of the intersections of these two issues throughout the three sessions, taking the view that texts/subjects that might seem to offer themselves more readily to one form of analysis might be even more valuably examined from the other. "Feminist criticism, for example, is especially important for works which ignore feminist issues," Jonathan Culler suggests, as "the value of the theoretical orientation is its bringing to light of what is unsaid or unthought in a particular work."1 We had been concerned to cross and even break down ''territorial" boundariessome participants who had worked primarily in Old English had taken on Middle English texts, and vice versaand we were inviting a self-conscious examination of each participant's own critical practice. The volume reflects the questions and issues that the writers brought to the exchange, and those that developed as a result of it.
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