The book and the body
By: edited by Dolores Warwick Frese, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe.
Contributors: Frese, Dolores Warwick, 1936-; O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien.
Series: University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips lectures in English language and literature ;; 14.; Ward-Phillips lectures in English language and literature ;; 14.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Criticism, Textual; Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Books and reading -- England -- History; Books and reading in literature; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England; Body, Human, in literature; Intertextuality; England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485
Description: One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text.

The method employed here views the body as a text to be read. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure and refigure themselves throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire. They will be of immense interest to medievalists and other scholars of language, philosophy, history, art history, and gender studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.