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BL
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1030426
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b784796
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Horner, Shari,1961-
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The discourse of enclosure : : representing women in Old English literature /\ by Shari Horner.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, ©2001.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in medieval studies
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1 online resource (viii, 207 pages).
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| ISBN
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0791450090
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: 0791450104
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: 0791490440
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: 9780791450093
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: 9780791450109
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: 9780791490440
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
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| Abstract
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"Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric'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, and 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."--Jacket.
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Enclosure (Monasticism)-- History-- To 1500.
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English literature-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Women and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Women in literature.
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Women-- England-- History-- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Clôture (Monachisme)-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.
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Féminisme et littérature-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.
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Femmes dans la littérature.
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Femmes et littérature-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- Jusqu'à 1500.
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Femmes-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
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Littérature anglaise-- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)-- Histoire et critique.
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Altenglisch
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Enclosure (Monasticism)
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English literature-- Old English.
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English Literature.
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English.
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Feminism and literature.
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Frau.
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Geschichte
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Languages Literatures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literatur
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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Women-- Middle Ages.
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Frau.
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Altenglisch.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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829/.09352042
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| LC Classification
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PR179.W65H67 2001eb
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| NLM classification
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HH 1187rvk
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