Double Agents
Author | : Claire A Lees |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2009-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781783163618 |
ISBN-13 | : 1783163615 |
Rating | : 4/5 (615 Downloads) |
Download or read book Double Agents written by Claire A Lees and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent.