Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman.

Author/creator Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionxiv, 206 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A688344
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
LCCN 2010018390
ISBN9780230105119 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0230105114 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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