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  title info:
    title: Feminist medievalisms
    sub title: embodiment and vulnerability in literature and film
  name:
    name part: Vishnuvajjala, Usha
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 131 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that the idea of the medieval past is central to the work of novelists and directors interested in embodiment and vulnerability. Careful and illuminating analysis of particular moments in fiction, film, and political discourse dismantles the false binary between popular and intellectual medievalisms, which rests on gendered understandings of genre and audience, while demonstrating that masculinist or patriarchal medievalisms have an equal but understudied counterpart.00The book's first three chapters cover Jane Austen?s Northanger Abbey' and its afterlives, the final works of Virginia Woolf, and late twentieth-century film and music videos from the United States. The final chapter examines the treatment of women's bodies and vulnerability in both political theory and recent electoral politics, arguing that they share a common thread of misogyny rooted in the idea of the medieval past, and that one way to challenge that misogyny is by looking at complex feminist engagements with that same past, both real and imagined.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Nested medievalisms and affected bodies in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey -- Chapter 2. Feminism and medievalism in Woolf's final works -- Chapter 3. Medievalism as feminist sanctuary in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 4. Chaucer, vulnerable bodies, somatophobia, and theory -- Conclusion. Feminisms and medievalisms.
  note: by Usha Vishnuvajjala.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Middle Ages in literature
  subject:
    topic: Middle Ages in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Feminist criticism
  classification: PN56.M534 V57 2024
  classification: 809/.93358207
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Feminist medievalisms
    name:
      name part: Vishnuvajjala, Usha.
    origin info:
      publisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2024]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1417177935
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Arc medievalist
  identifier: 9781641893831
  identifier: 1641893834
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230623
    record change date: 20250318220306.3
    record identifier: in00005466573
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng