Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature

JEFF RIDER Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University, USA. JAMIE FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of English at Westmont College, USA.

• The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature; J.Rider Order, Anarchy and Emotion in the Old French Philomena ; K.G.Casebier  What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge; B.Grigoriu   Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan's Livre de Trois Vertus; S.C.Mitchell   Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Mélusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments; T.Colwell   Is She Angry or Just Sad?  Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz; H.Verhoosel   Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provençal Literature; J.Rudin   Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo's Vida de Santa Oria ; E.C.Francomano  Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in Leonor López de Córdoba and Teresa de Cartagena; V.Rivera-Cordero   Between Boccaccio and Chaucer:  The Limits of Female Interiority in the Knight's Tale ; J.Friedman   In Laura's Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters; A.A.Feng

"The final chapters of The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Literature thus remind us of the formidable obstacles that prevented medieval women from giving full voice to their 'inner life' and of the necessity of volumes such as the present one. By looking beyond the surface of female representations, by re- examining well-known emotional portraits, or by highlighting lesser-known writers, this collection portrays the richness, variety, and complexity of women's emotions in medieval literature.The volume's careful attention to nuances of emotional state, to subtle shifts in feelings or perspectives, and to repressed feminine identities maps out a dynamic emotionology worthy of a closer look . . . productive and illuminating." - The Medieval Review