Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation

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Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.