Kempe, Margery | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Fienberg, Nona. “Thematics of Value in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Modern Philology 87, No. 2 (November 1989): 132-41.
Examines the way in which The Book of Margery Kempe manipulates the “evaluative system” of Kempe's society.
Holbrook, Sue Ellen. “‘About Her’: Margery Kempe's Book of Feeling and Working.” In The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard, edited by James M. Dean and Christian K. Zacher, pp. 265-84. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
Analyzes Kempe as a female writer, rather than as simply a story teller or hysteric, and emphasizes the significance to Kempe of creating a book of spiritual revelations, instead of just receiving the revelations and perhaps sharing them with a select group.
Howes, Laura L. “On the Birth of Margery Kempe's Last Child.”...
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