Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-72

  Heng, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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References (34)

1. Emma Goldman, Living My Life (New York: Knopf, 1934), p. 56.
2. Elaine Tuttle Hansen of literary characters “The Feminization of Men in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,” in Sheila Fisher and Janet E. Halley, eds., Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism [Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989]
3. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 1–10. The Medieval Feminist Index, archiving the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship’s bibliographies and books reviewed in the Society’s periodical (originally called The Medieval Feminist Newsletter but renamed The Medieval Feminist Forum), is invaluable, and can be accessed at: www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html.
4. Jews, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
5. Thomas N. Tentler, “The Summa for Confessors as an Instrument of Social Control,” in Charles Trinkaus and Heiko A. Oberman, eds., The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974), p. 117.
6. Tambling, Confession: Sexuality, Sin, the Subject (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), p. 38.
7. Mary Flowers Braswell observes, was “confession… required three times a year, rather than only once”
8. Braswell, The Medieval Sinner: Characterization and Confession in the Literature of the English Middle Ages (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983), p. 15.
9. R. I. Moore tracks the rise of a culture of governmentality, surveillance, and punishment in his The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe 950–1250 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987)
10. John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980)
11. Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982).
12. Sophia Menache’s “Faith, Myth, and Politics: the Stereotype of the Jews and Their Expulsion from England and France,” The Jewish Quarterly Review 75:4 (1985), pp. 351–74
13. A. C. Spearing’s study on voyeurism, The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love-Narratives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
14. Karma Lochrie’s Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
15. Thorlac Turville-Petre, England the Nation: Language, Literature, and National Identity, 1290–1340 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996);
16. Claus Bjrn, Alexander Grant, and Keith J. Stringer, eds., Nations, Nationalism and Patriotism in the European Past (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994);
17. Simon Forde, Lesley Johnson, and Alan V. Murray, eds., Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages (Leeds: Leeds Texts and Monographs New Series 4, 1995).
18. Ancrene Wisse, “the Anchoresses’ Guide,” the name given in the Corpus manuscript, MS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402, rather than the older editorial title, Ancren(e) Riwle, “the Anchoresses’ Rule,”
19. E. J. Dobson, The Origins of Ancrene Wisse (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1976), who argues against the possibility of Dominican authorship dismissively (see, for example, pp. 14–54).
20. Bella Millet, “The Origins of Ancrene Wisse: New Answers, New Questions,” Medium Aevum 61 (1992), pp. 206–28.
21. Ann Warren, Anchorites and Their Patrons in Medieval England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), Appendix 1.
22. J. R. R. Tolkien, Ancrene Wisse: Edited from MS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402 (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), Early English Text Society No. 249, p. 175.
23. “Anchoresses usually had maidservants. The author of Ancrene Wisse regards two, an inside one and an outside one, as appropriate and envisages, naturally, a fair amount of converse between mistress and servants.” (See Hugh White, trans., Ancrene Wisse: Guide for Anchoresses London: Penguin, 1993), p. xv.
24. Sharon K. Elkins, Holy Women of Twelfth-Century England (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)
25. Henrietta Leyser, Hermits and the New Monasticism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984).
26. Bella Millet and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne eds., Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
27. Warren muses: “In the twelfth century there was much overt mystical writing. Yet when it came time to direct a work to anchorites, or at least to female anchorites, the tone is penitential and only minimally mystical” (Anchorites and Their Patrons, p. 1154 n.50). I
28. Ancrene Wisse’s “chapter on confession might be taken as itself making a contribution to this particular type of literature.”
29. M. B. Salu, trans., The Ancrene Riwle (London: Burns and Oates, 1955), p. xxi.
30. Alexandra Barrett more recently notes that “it is now a scholarly commonplace that AW shows the firm imprint of penitential literature”(“The Five Wits in Ancrene Wisse,” Medium Aevum 56 [1987], pp. 12–24).
31. Root A., “Space to speke”: The Confessional Subject in Medieval Literature (New York: Peter Lang, 1997), p. 64.
32. Millet, “Origins of Ancrene Wisse,” p. 216.
33. David Wallace in his public lecture, “Surinam: The Long History of Black and White,” delivered at the University of Texas at Austin, on October 18, 2002
34. Peter Brooks’s Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).