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Shutters, Patricia Lynn.

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Gendering histories: Representations of Pagan cultures in Middle English literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gendering histories: Representations of Pagan cultures in Middle English literature./
Author:	Shutters, Patricia Lynn.
Description:	398 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3401.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3146707
ISBN:	0496053353

Gendering histories: Representations of Pagan cultures in Middle English literature.
Shutters, Patricia Lynn.

Gendering histories: Representations of Pagan cultures in Middle English literature. - 398 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3401.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

This dissertation, "Gendering Histories: Representations of Pagan Cultures in Middle English Literature," foregrounds gender as a category through which Middle English texts locate pagan cultures in Christian historical frameworks. I argue that medieval authors employ a male-female binary to distinguish, organize, and at times problematize desirable and undesirable aspects of pagan cultures. By "pagan" I mean both classical pagans of Greco-Roman antiquity and contemporary eastern peoples. I bring these two types of pagans together to explore how the trope of gendering history not only frames the past, but also shapes contemporary events to fit Christian models of historical progression.

ISBN: 0496053353Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Gendering histories: Representations of Pagan cultures in Middle English literature.
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520 $a This dissertation, "Gendering Histories: Representations of Pagan Cultures in Middle English Literature," foregrounds gender as a category through which Middle English texts locate pagan cultures in Christian historical frameworks. I argue that medieval authors employ a male-female binary to distinguish, organize, and at times problematize desirable and undesirable aspects of pagan cultures. By "pagan" I mean both classical pagans of Greco-Roman antiquity and contemporary eastern peoples. I bring these two types of pagans together to explore how the trope of gendering history not only frames the past, but also shapes contemporary events to fit Christian models of historical progression.
520 $a In my first three chapters, focusing upon John Gower's Confessio Amantis, the Wars of Alexander, and the Sowdone of Babylone, I argue that aspects of pagan cultures that medieval authors wish to preserve in Christianity are associated with masculine virtue, while those aspects perceived to be negative are gendered feminine. This process of gendering histories creates a notion of difference between pagan and Christian, eastern and western, then and now. Yet the association of historical times or cultural entities with gender also allows for the confrontation of various narratives of historical progression. That is, histories that contradict Christian teleologies are embodied in female pagan characters who interrogate their male counterparts and the models of history they in turn represent.
520 $a In my fourth chapter, I expand the scope of my inquiry to consider how the conjunctions of femininity and temporality that I identify in Chapters 1--3 might apply to representations of women more generally. Here I examine a very different sort of female figure, Griselda of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale.
520 $a Throughout this study I consider the complexities of employing gender to organize historical and cultural difference, for medieval texts simultaneously present the male-female binary as fixed and natural even as they portray a range of behaviors that do not fit neatly into traditional gender categories. My dissertation also reveals the multiple, often contradictory temporalities present in medieval representations of historical progression, and thus contributes to recent considerations of medieval historiography that engage with postcolonial theorizations of history and time.
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