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Author:
Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-
Title:
Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xiv, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Notes:
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.
Series:
The new Middle Ages
ISBN:
0230105114 (alk. paper)
9780230105119 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)613433794
LCCN:
2010018390
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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