Module Identifier | ENM1220 | ||||||||
Module Title | WOMEN'S WRITING IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | To Be Arranged | ||||||||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||||||||
Next year offered | N/A | ||||||||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||||||||
Other staff | Professor Diane Watt | ||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | |||||||
Assessment |
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1. Women's Literary History: the Medieval Phase
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own", Janet Todd, "Feminist Literary History" (Chapter 1); Alexandra Barratt, "Women's
Writing in the Middle English" (Introduction).
2. A Cell of One's Own
Julian of Norwich: "A Revelation of Love; The Book of Margery Kempe"; "A Revelation of Purgatory".
3. Women Writing Fiction
Marie de France's "Lais" and "Fables".
4. The First Professional Woman Writer
Christine de Pisan: "The Epistle of Othea"; "The Body of Policy"; "The Book of the City of Ladies"; "The Treasure of the City
of Ladies"; "Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc".
5. Traslating Authority and the Problems of 'Non-Literary' and Anonymous Texts
Dame Eleanor Hull, "The Seven Psalms and Meditations"; Lady Margaret Beaufort, "The Imitation of Christ" and "The Mirror
of Gold to the Sinful Soul"; religious lyrics by women, the Paston letters, "The Assembly of Ladies", "The Flower and the Leaf",
"The Owl and the Nightingale", anonymous secular poetry.
Primary Reading
Alexandra Barratt (ed), "Women's Writing in Middle English" (London, 1982)
This module is at CQFW Level 7