Pearman, Tory Vandeventer. Women and disability in medieval literature

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Creator

Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-

Date

2010

Location

New York, New York (State)
United States

Media format

Printed text

Extent

xiv, 206 p.

Language

English

Size

22 cm

Reference IDs

Folger bibliographic ID: 244921
Folger call number: PN682.W6 P43 2010
Folger holdings ID: 310156

Notes

Edition

1st ed

General notes

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

Also known as

Extended title: Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman

Subjects

Literature, Medieval Women in literature People with disabilities in literature

Related names

author: Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, 1980-