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" Women and disability in medieval literature / "
Tory Vandeventer Pearman
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BL
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711198
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b533387
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| Main Entry
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Pearman, Tory Vandeventer,1980-
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| Title & Author
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Women and disability in medieval literature /\ Tory Vandeventer Pearman
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010
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The new Middle Ages
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xiv, 206 p. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0230105114 (alk. paper)
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: 9780230105119 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism
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People with disabilities in literature
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Women in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.93352042
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| LC Classification
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PN682.W6P43 2010
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