Women and disability in medieval literature
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117563 |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230105119, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 220 p. |
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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. |