Women and Disability in Medieval Literature

by T. Pearman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349289554
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/09/2015
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	1st ed. 2010
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Essays in Medieval Studies and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability.

Table of Contents

Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe