Session Details

Tuesday, 30 December

806. Allegory and Gender

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square 2, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer

Presiding: Masha Raskolnikov, Cornell Univ.

1. “The Shame of All Her Kind: Spenser, Nietzsche, and the Allegory of Duessa Unveiled,” Yi-Ping Ong, Harvard Univ.

2. “Genders and Bodies: Female Personification Allegory in Piers Plowman,” Shannon Alma Bush, Univ. of California, Riverside

3. “The Devil’s Milk: Gender and Incest in Gower’s Mirour de l’Omme,” Kim Zarins, Cornell Univ.

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