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Women and disability in medieval literature
- Title
- Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman.
- Author
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 206 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- The new Middle Ages
- Uniform Title
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-576
- ISBN
- 9780230105119 (alk. paper)
- 0230105114 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010018390
- OCLC
- YBP 2010018390
- Author
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-
- Title
- Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- The new Middle AgesNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-576