Jessica Barr is assistant professor of English, Eureka College.
"By working across genres, Barr is able to bring the male and
female visionary traditions together for the first time. This will
stimulate discussion and take scholarship on medieval women's
writing in a new direction. This is a very ambitious book."
--Kathryn Lynch, professor of English, Wellesley College
"Willing to Know God puts into dialogue two important genres that
have hitherto been studied in isolation from each other: the dream
vision and the mystical revelation. In doing so, Barr provides a
new take on English literary history, a different way of looking at
Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and the Pearl-poet.
Barr also elucidates the mystics' contribution to late medieval
culture--not merely to religious culture."--Karen Winstead,
professor of English, The Ohio State University
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