Women and Disability in Medieval Literature.

This book serves as the first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, the study proposes a "gendered model" for exploring the processes b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pearman, Tory Vandeventer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:The New Middle Ages Ser.
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature.
Literature, Medieval
People with disabilities in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body; 1 (Dis)pleasure and (Dis)ability: The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the "Merchant's Tale"; 2 Physical Education: Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the "Wife of Bath's Prologue"; 3 Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid; 4 Embodied Transcendence: Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe; Conclusion.

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