Women and Disability in Medieval Literature / by T. Pearman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-

Series:

The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval.

Sex.

Classical literature.

Literature, Ancient.

European literature.

Medieval Literature.

Gender Studies.

Classical and Antique Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Medieval Literature.

Gender Studies.

Classical and Antique Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : medieval authoritative discourse and the disabled female body

(Dis)pleasure and (dis)ability : the topos of reproduction in Dame Sirith and the "Merchant's tale"

Physical education : excessive wives and bodily punishment in the Book of the knight and The wife of Bath's prologue

Refiguring disability : deviance, punishment, and the supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid

Embodied transcendence : disability and the procreative body in The book of Margery Kempe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613066985

9781283066983

128306698X

9780230117563

0230117562

OCLC:

712015811