Althusser, Louis, 57
Analytical Review, 118
Anderson, George, 118
Angela of Foligno, 89–94, 96, 98, 99; Liber de vere fidelium experientia, 89–90
Aquitaine, 36
Armstrong, Nancy, (Desire and Domestic Fiction), 110, 114–15, 191
Astell, Mary, 183
Austen, Jane, 152
author function, 12n6, 99, 106–7, 108–11
Bakhtin, M. M., 12–20, 48, 78, 81n5, 88, 111, 143, 150n2; “Discourse in the Novel,” 12n6, 13, 20; Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, 12n6
Bakhtin circle, 12
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 142
Barthes, Roland, 23, 99, 191–94; “From Work to Text,” 191–92
Beauvoir, Simone de, 2 beguines, 86–87
Behn, Aphra, 183, 186–88, 195; Dutch Lover, 186–87
Bell, Rudolph (Holy Anorexia), 91–93
Bennett, William, 154
Berger, John (Ways of Seeing), 61
Bernard of Chartres, 60
Bernart de Ventadorn, 35, 42–44, 46, 63
Bernstein, Michael André, 16n9, 21
Blake, William, 118
Bloom, Harold, 146
body, the, 74, 76–78, 80–81, 84, 87–93, 95–96, 98, 113–14
Bogel, Frederick, 181
Bogin, Meg, 30–31, 34, 56n21, 70
Boniface, Saint, 80
Bonnycastle, John, 118
Boswell, James, 142
Bourdieu, Pierre (Outline of a Theory of Practice), 45, 54–55, 114, 144–45
Brule, Gace, 45
Burke, Edmund, 166
Burney, Fanny, 183
Butler, Samuel, 142
Bynum, Caroline, 85, 92n18, 93n19
canon, the, 148–49, 151–59, 161, 164, 172, 174, 176, 182–85, 190
catharism, 86
Catherine of Genoa, 94
Catherine of Siena, 87, 93, 96, 99
Cercamon, 63
Charlemagne, 80
Chodorow, Nancy, 110
Chopin, Kate, 26, 193; The Awakening, 161–67, 169, 171–78
Christian, Barbara, 2
Clair, Saint, 87
classical body, 81, 84, 88, 90–93
client, 42–44, 46–47, 50, 53–54, 57, 59, 62, 65–67
cobias singulars, 56
cobias unissonans, 65 complexity, 4–13, 17–22, 24–28, 38, 78, 191–93
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, 181, 189
countess of Dia, 31, 50–58, 61–63, 69
courtly love, 27, 30–33, 42, 50, 52. See also fin’ amor
Cowper, William, 142
de Certeau, Michel, 10, 76, 95
deconstruction, 6, 18, 111, 184, 191, 194
derived rhyme (rims derivatus), 58–60
Derrida, Jacques, 99, 104, 108, 109, 111, 184; “The Ear of the Other,” 104
diachrony, 161
dialogic, 11–20, 22–29, 47, 49, 69, 78, 86, 96, 100, 125, 142–43, 153, 156, 158–60, 172–74, 178–79, 184, 190; of culture, 148; of style, 129; subject, 103–4, 107–8
Dickinson, Emily, 152
différance, 57
disciplinary technologies, 78, 86, 89, 92, 95–96, 144, 170
disorder, 6, 8, 24. See also chaos
disposatif, 10, 83–84, 94, 99. See also grid of intelligibility
dolce stil novo, 30
domestic sphere, 112–15, 119–22, 124, 129–30, 136, 141, 168
Dryden, John, 142, 183, 185, 188–89
Duby, Georges, 32, 35, 40, 45, 67n29, 105
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 187n26
Eagleton, Terry, 117–18, 150–52, 156, 188
écriture feminine, 14. See also women’s language
Eisenstadt, S. N., 42
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 36n5
Eliot, T. S., 158, 160–61, 164, 174, 179, 181, 183, 184; “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 160–61, 179
Ermengarde of Narbonne, 36
family, the, 112–13, 120–21, 168, 170–71, 175
feminism, 2–5, 10–13, 15, 22, 27, 29, 53, 77, 81, 98, 109, 115, 149, 151–52, 175, 177–79, 182, 194
feminist literary criticism, 1, 3, 22, 29, 50–55, 75, 176–78, 191
feminist theory, 6, 25, 158, 183, 193, 195
feudalism, 32, 35–38, 40–48, 55, 62, 64–65, 67–69
fin’ amor, 30–31, 33, 35, 40–42, 45, 48–50, 57–67, 70–74. See also courtly love
Finch, Anne, 183
Flexner, Eleanor, 123
fluid mechanics, 6
Fordyce, George, 118
Fordyce, James, 116, 142; Sermons for Young Women, 116
Foucault, Michel, 2–3, 10, 12n6, 75–77, 83, 94–95, 99, 106–11, 142; Discipline and Punish, 76; History of Sexuality, 161, 170
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 87
Free Spirit, 86
Fuseli, Henri, 118
Gay, John, 142
Geddes, Alexander, 118
Gellrich, Jesse, 99
gender, 10, 15, 53; in the courtly lyric, 32; cultural work of, 192–95; social construction of, 3, 49
genre, 16, 32–33, 48–49, 89, 125, 176, 196
Gertrude the Great (Herald of Divine Love), 85–86
gift, the, 41, 43, 53–54, 57, 67n29
Gilbert, Sandra, 79, 145–46, 152n4, 162; The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature, 153, 161, 167
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (Women and Economics), 171
Giraut de Bornelh, 63
Godwin, William, 116, 123; Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," 116
Gregory, John, 142
grid of intelligibility, 10–11, 27, 32, 83. See also disposatif
grotesque body, 81, 84, 88–90, 93
Gubar, Susan, 79, 145–46, 152n4, 162; Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature, 153, 161, 167
Guillaume, ninth duke of Aquitaine, 30, 33, 35–36, 38, 46, 63; “Companho, faray un vers . . . covinen," 46
gynocriticism, 1n1, 27, 110, 153, 193
Hadewijch d'Anvers, 75
Hadewijch of Brabant, 94
Haraway, Donna, 3–6, 14–15, 18, 19; "A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” 4, 5–6
Hartman, Geoffrey, 110
Hawking, Stephen, 7
Hawkins, Harriett, 166
Hayles, N. Katherine, 4, 6–7, 9; Chaos Bound, 6–7
Haywood, Eliza, 183, 184, 188–89;
hermeneutics of suspicion, 94
Hildegard of Bingen, 98
Hobbes, Thomas, 112
Honorius III (Pope), 87
Horace (Art of Poetry), 185–86
Hugeberc, 81
ideology, 22, 63, 68, 78, 81, 83, 94, 112–15, 130, 136–37, 141–46, 161; of aesthetics, 28, 30, 123, 161, 163–67; of bourgeois individualism, 119–24, 147; of class, 32–34, 40, 48; of courtly love, 57–58; of gender, 48, 53, 100, 110, 133–35, 138
information theory, 6
internally persuasive discourse, 15
interpretive communities, 178
intertextuality, 24, 78, 193–94
Ivanov, V. V., 88
Jacobus, Mary, 2
Jacques de Vitry, 99
Jardine, Alice, 25
John of Salisbury, 60
Johnson, Joseph, 118
Johnson, Samuel, 142, 179–82, 185, 189; Preface to Shakespeare, 179–80, 182, 189
Julian of Norwich, 78n3, 96–98; Showings, 96–98
Kempe, Margery, 78n3, 82–83, 100–106; The Book of Margery Kempe, 78n3, 83n9, 100–106, 194
kinship, 27, 36, 40–41, 48–49, 57, 192
Knox, Vicesimus, 142
Kolodny, Annette, 153
Kristeva, Julia, 49, 70, 76, 99, 109
Lacan, Jacques, 30, 75–76, 109
language, 4, 16–17, 32, 40, 52, 82, 111–12, 119–20, 124–25, 127, 129, 131–34, 140, 147, 191
language games, 150
langue, 13
Lauter, Paul, 158
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 22–24, 159
linguistics, 12–13, 20, 71, 79, 161
Lipking, Lawrence, 182
Macaulay, Catherine, 127–28, 142
Marie d'Oignes, 99
Marie of Montpellier, 36
marriage, 40–41, 48, 55, 61, 65
Medvedev, P. N., 12
Meese, Elizabeth (Crossing the Double-Cross), 151, 154
Miller, J. Hillis, 110
Milton, John, 142–48; Paradise Lost, 146
minnesingers, 30
modality, 20–23, 164n11; high or positive, 21, 23; low or negative, 21
money, 40
monologism, 13–19, 78, 86, 102, 172, 178–79, 182–84
More, Hannah, 116
mysticism, 27, 74–81, 83, 86–87, 94, 96
mystics, 26, 76–86, 90, 92–99, 104, 111, 193
New Criticism, 17, 151, 175, 177–78, 184
new historicism, 1
Newtonianism, 7
New Woman, 169
noise, 8, 188; cultural, 148, 154, 195; history of, 11, 22–29, 178–79, 183; style as, 108; in The Book of Margery Kempe, 105; of troubadour and trobairitz poetry, 33, 38, 69–70; in Wollstonecraft, 124–25
nonlinear dynamics, 6
Normandy, 36
Occitania, 31, 35, 38, 41, 46, 74
Otway, Thomas (Caius Marius), 189–90
Paden, William, 31–32, 40, 68, 70
Paine, Thomas, 118
parole, 13
patron, 36, 38–39, 42–48, 50–54, 57, 59, 62, 65–68
patronage, 27, 38–54, 57–69, 71–74, 83n9, 117
Peat, E. David, 7
Petroff, Elizabeth, 82–83, 87, 94
poaching, 10, 15, 25, 27, 58, 74, 78, 95, 142
Pollard, Percy (Their Day in Court), 174
Poovey, Mary, 133, 145n15, 191, 193;
Pope, Alexander, 142, 183, 185, 188; Dunciad, 188
Porete, Marguerite, 83, 94; Mirror of Simple Souls, 83n9
poststructuralism, 1–2, 3, 14, 75–76, 109–10, 191, 193–94
primogeniture, 37, 38, 41, 61, 73
Providence Sunday Journal, 163, 172
public sphere, 112–31, 134, 141, 143
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, 31
Rankin, Daniel, 174
representation, 4, 6, 11, 32, 52, 57, 59, 76, 78, 82, 96–98, 127, 134–36, 149, 157, 176; of the body, 77, 84, 87–90, 93; money as, 40; of sexuality, 75; of voice, 101; of woman, 30, 33, 61; writing as, 37–39
rhetoric, 124–34, 138, 142, 147; of domestic fiction, 133; of philosophy, 126
Richard of Capua, 99
Richardson, Samuel, 142
Richard the Lionhearted, 44
Ricoeur, Paul, 94
Robinson, Lillian, 154
Roniger, Luis, 42
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 116, 138, 142–46
rubbish, 161, 163–64, 173; theory, 161n9
Rudel, Jaufre, 38
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 163, 172
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 13, 160
Schweickart, Patrocinio, 98
semiotics, 4, 19, 22, 24, 95, 108, 111–12, 114–15
senhal, 47
sexuality, 32, 39–41, 74–76, 90–93, 116, 148, 171, 195; female, 27, 41, 92, 96, 133, 136, 177; medical discourse of, 169–70
Shakespeare, William, 142, 148–52, 188–90
Shapiro, Marianne, 31n2, 50, 55n19
Shelley, Mary, 147
Showalter, Elaine, 1–2, 26n13, 98, 153; “Critical Cross Dressing,” 2; “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness," 2
sign, 12–17, 49, 52, 88, 95–97, 160; polysemanticity of, 69–70; poststructuralist theories of, 193; systems of, 178
Smith, Adam, 142
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 155–56, 159, 176
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 168–70
social constructivism, 2–4, 8, 18, 21
speech, 102; genres, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 108, 122, 126, 132, 150n2, 156, 164
Stallybrass, Peter, 88, 112–13, 168
style, 27, 66, 122–37, 142, 192
subject, the, 107, 109, 111, 113–15, 117–19, 122, 127–30, 143; dialogic, 99–100; position, 117, 124, 134, 147; speaking, 115, 128, 130
subjectivity, 98, 105, 107, 109–11, 114, 119–20, 124, 129, 131, 134; female, 104, 120; gendered, 115; male, 119
symbolic capital, 45, 47, 51–52, 54–55, 62, 65, 69, 71, 73
synchronic stasis, 161
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 142
Tatler, The, 113
technologies of the self, 94–95
Tetta, 81
theory, 2, 4, 76, 182–85; of everything (TOE), 7–8
Thomas de Cantripré (Vita of Christina Mirabilis), 91
Toulousain, 36
trobairitz, 26–27, 31–33, 49–50, 53, 56–58, 62, 64, 66, 70, 74, 111, 193
troubadours, 30–34, 38–42, 45, 47–51, 55–56, 59, 70–71, 195
value, 150, 153–61, 164–65, 167, 171–89; aesthetic, 27–28, 154, 190; cultural, 148–49, 154; literary, 151–52, 157, 174, 177, 185, 192; value-for, 154–59
Vance, Eugene, 45
vassalage, 41, 44, 46–47, 65–69, 73
vernacular, 38
Volšinov, V. N., 12n6, 14, 48, 111, 143, 156; Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, 12n6, 143
Walpole, Horace, 116
White, Hayden, 23
Williams, Raymond, 10
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 26, 115–47, 183; "Lessons for Children,” 126; Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 137; Maria, 126; Mary, 126; Original Stories, 126; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 27, 108, 115–31, 136–48, 194
woman question, 168
woman writer, 1, 6–7, 11, 13, 20, 22, 25, 29, 98–107, 152, 158, 176, 191, 194, 196
Woolf, Virginia, 120, 146–47, 152; A Room of One’s Own, 146
Woolgar, Steven, 19
Young, Edward, 142