Women and Disability in Medieval Literature

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-28955-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearman, T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as and .