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Women and Disability in Medieval Literature /

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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 difference...

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Main Author: Pearman, Tory Vandeventer (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:New Middle Ages.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Classical and Antique Literature.
Gender Studies.
Medieval Literature.
British literature.
Classical literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Medieval.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 206 pages)
ISBN:9780230117563
DOI:10.1057/9780230117563