Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature / Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury, editors.

Other author Lomperis, Linda.
Other author Stanbury, Sarah.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesNew cultural studies
New cultural studies. ^A292626
Contents Petrarch's beloved body : Italia mia / Margaret Brose -- Unruly bodies and ruling practices : Chaucer's Physician's tale as socially symbolic act / Linda Lomperis -- The body politic and the queen's adulterous body in French romance / Peggy McCracken -- Purity and danger : The paradox of Mary's body and the en-gendering of the Infancy narrative in the English Mystery Cycles / Theresa Coletti -- Feminist masterplots : the gaze on the body of Pearl's dead girl / Sarah Stanbury -- Originary fantasies and Chaucer's Book of the duchess / Gayle Margherita -- Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality in the Ancrene wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings / Elizabeth Robertson -- Body into text : the Book of Margery Kempe / Wendy Harding -- The prick which is not one : how women talk back in Old French fabliaux / E. Jane Burns -- At the bottom of mirage, a woman's body : Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart / Helen Solterer.
Bibliography note"The body, gender, and sexuality in history and theory: a selective bibliography": p. [235]-243.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92033033
ISBN0812231171
ISBN0812213645 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN682.W6 F37 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold