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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Juárez Almendros, Encarnación, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women's disability.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102602
- ISBN:
- 9781786948441
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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