Women and Disability in Medieval Literature [electronic resource] /
Pearman, T.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature, Medieval.
Sociology.
Classical literature.
British literature.
Medieval Literature.
Gender Studies.
Classical and Antique Literature.
British and Irish Literature.