Placeholder text

Go to cart

The Discourse of Enclosure

By Shari Horner

Product Image: The Discourse of Enclosure

The Discourse of Enclosure

0 - Used - good
Description
Examines representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose. 2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers-literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, spatial-all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions-that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
218
Release Date:
2001-06-01
Publication Date:
2001-05-24
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791450104
ISBN13:
9780791450109
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
361 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out