Body Against Soul Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory /
Masha Raskolnikov.
- 1 online resource (xi, 225 p.)
- Interventions : new studies in medieval culture .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
Thought enfleshed : philosophy and psychology as figured in Latin allegory -- Allegorizing the split self : a Middle English debate between the body and the soul -- "The soul is the prison of the body" : pedagogy, punishment, and self-love in a Middle English debate -- Defending the female self : "Sawles warde" and sowlehele -- Promising the female, delivering the male : transformations of gender in Piers Plowman.
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English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500 Body and soul in literature. Allegory.