| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| 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 |
| Summary |
This book€is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, €it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Börngen, ... gnd |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Medieval
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People with disabilities in literature
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Women in literature
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Behinderung Motiv
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Literatur
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Literatur -- Motiv -- Behinderte Frau.
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Behinderte Frau -- Motiv -- Literatur.
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Literatur -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
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Motiv.
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Frau.
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Behinderung.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230117563 |
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0230117562 |
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9781349289554 |
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1349289558 |
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