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      Writing Revolution

      Sheila Delany

      How do the commitments of the revolutionary and the artistic aspirations of the writer fit together? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines…

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      Chaucer and the Jews

      This edited collection explores how and why the Jews continued to play an important role in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after Jews…

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      For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Marechal’s Pour et Contre la Bible (1801)

      Sheila Delany

      In For and Against the Bible (1801), Sheila Delany translates Sylvain Marechal’s rationalist commentary on Jewish and Christian scripture. Atheist and supporter of the French Revolution, Marechal hoped his text…

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      Chaucer and the Jews

      First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Legend of Holy Women, A: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham’s Legends of Holy Women

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      Sheila Delany’s translation of Osbern Bokenham’s Legendys of Hooly Wummen makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse, it contains the…

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      Legend of Holy Women, A: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham’s Legends of Holy Women

      Sheila Delany

      A translation of Osbern Bokenham’s Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar’s version of the stories of 13…

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      Writing Revolution: Representation, Rhetoric, and Revolutionary Politics

      Sheila Delany

      Writing Revolution gathers ten essays on several modern authors who supported and worked for the revolutions they studied, lived through, and hoped for. Written by a distinguished scholar who shares…

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      The Naked Text: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

      Sheila Delany

      This study of Chaucer explores what it meant to be an English writer, reader and courtier in the late - 14th century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy and…

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      The Naked Text: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

      Sheila Delany

      This study of Chaucer explores what it meant to be an English writer, reader and courtier in the late - 14th century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy and…

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      The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Marechal’s Novella, La femme abbe

      Sylvain Marechal

      First translation of French novella (1801) about passion, social convention, obsession, and despair.

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      Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory

      Originally published as a special issue of Exemplaria, these essays deserve a much wider audience. They deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian, rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of…

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      Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern

      Professor of English Sheila Delany (Simon Fraser University)

      In Writing Woman, Sheila Delany examines the artifact woman from a radical perspective. Each individual is seen by Delany as an artifact–made, not born –laboriously worked up, pieced together, written…

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      For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Marechal’s Pour et Contre la Bible (1801)

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      The first ever translation of the famed French Revolutionary Sylvain Marechal’s biblical commentary provides invaluable insight into the origins of secularism.An extraordinary book of radical Bible commentary for specialists that…

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      Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham

      Sheila Delany (Professor of English, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)

      An examination of the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham which explores the relation of history and literature through the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War…

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      Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham

      Sheila Delany (Professor of English, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)

      An examination of the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham which explores the relation of history and literature through the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War…

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