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Women and disability in medieval literature

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Main Authors: Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: New Middle Ages
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
Women in literature
People with disabilities in literature
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117563
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230105119, 2011.
Carrier Form: 220 p.
ISBN: 9780230105119
9780230117563 :
0230117562 :
CLC: I109.3
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.

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