{"product_id":"women-readers-and-the-ideology-of-gender-in-old-french-verse-romance-paperback-9780521619363","title":"Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance (Paperback) 9780521619363","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study challenges the commonplace view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoberta L. Krueger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521619363, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 17 February 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.478 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis study focuses on the relationship between Old French verse romances and the women who formed a part of their audience, and challenges the commonly-held view that all courtly literature promoted the social welfare of the noblewomen to whom romances were dedicated or addressed. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, Roberta Krueger provides close readings of a selection of texts, both well-known and less well-known, to show an intriguing variety of portrayals of women: misogynistic, idealizing and didactic. She suggests that romances not only taught their audiences idealized models of masculine and feminine behaviour (including a sophisticated underpinning of medieval women's loss of autonomy in the family, education and society during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries), but that many romances also invited their readers to criticise and to resist gender roles.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The displaced reader: the female audience of Old French romance\u003cbr\u003e 2. The question of women in Yvain and Le Chevalier de la Charrette\u003cbr\u003e 3. Playing to the ladies: chivalry and misogyny in Ipomedon, Le Chevalier à l'Epée, and La Vengeance Raguidel\u003cbr\u003e 4. Women readers and the politics of gender in Le roman de Silence\u003cbr\u003e 5. Double jeopardy: the appropriation of women in four romances from the cycle de la gageure\u003cbr\u003e 6. Constructing sexual identities in Robert de Blois' didactic poetry\u003cbr\u003e 7. The reader as object of desire in Le roman du Castelain de Couci et de la dame de Fayel\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Woman's Response: Christine de Pizan's Le livre du Duc des Vrais Amans and the limits of romance\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004782498072,"sku":"9780521619363","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521619363i_a04ff6f7-e2d2-4f7a-8243-6404b885705d.jpg?v=1691370633","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/women-readers-and-the-ideology-of-gender-in-old-french-verse-romance-paperback-9780521619363","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}