Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. Introduction: The Psychic Life of the Past 1
6. 1. Margery Kempe and the Pathology of Writing 15
7. 2. Body and Metaphor in the Middle English Juliana 43
8. 3. Women and Riot in the Harley Lyrics 62
9. 4. Originary Fantasies and Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 82
10. 5. Historicity, Femininity, and Chaucer’s Troilus 100
11. 6. Father Aeneas or Morgan the Goddess 129
12. Afterword: The Medieval Thing 153
13. Appendix 163
14. Notes 179
15. Bibliography 203
16. Index 211
17. Backmatter 215