ENGB07H3 Lecture Notes - Hrotsvitha
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Important to what we"re reading as well as the history. Get a proper understand of the ideas that were spread from one era onto another. Group of literary works accepted as representative of a field. At the beginning of each class she will give a bit of context around the author and text(s) Course is set up in terms of literary era. In the 1980s and 1990s there was a surge of looking for women writers. Didn"t need the long educational structure, like latin did. None of this is completely certain, because their biographies were not recorded. German nun, which was seen in her spiritual writing. Wrote a lot of plays discussing a lot of the same concepts and julian of norwich. Understood as one of the first female playwrights. Many writers at the time signed at anon, so it was hard to know if it was male or female. They couldn"t necessarily meet, they had an insular life.