Feminist medievalisms : embodiment and vulnerability in literature and film /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Arc medievalist.
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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.