Women and disability in medieval lit...
Pearman, Tory Vandeventer, (1980-)

 

  • Women and disability in medieval literature[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 809/.93352042
    Title/Author: Women and disability in medieval literature/ Tory Vandeventer Pearman.
    Author: Pearman, Tory Vandeventer,
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 206 p.)
    Subject: Literature, Medieval - History and criticism.
    Subject: Women in literature.
    Subject: People with disabilities in literature.
    Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Literary.
    ISBN: 9780230117563 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230117562 (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-200) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117563
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