Women and Disability in Medieval Literature

Informationen zum Autor TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Essays in Medieval Studies and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability . Klappentext This book is 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! it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant. Zusammenfassung This book is 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, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant. Inhaltsverzeichnis Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe

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Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe

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• Authors: T Pearman, T. Pearman, Tory Vandeventer Pearman
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349289554
• ISBN: 978-1-349-28955-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: The New Middle Ages; New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, European Literature, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval