Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Usha Vishnuvajjala

Published by ARC Humanities Press 2024

Feminist Medievalisms

Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Usha Vishnuvajjala

In the series Arc Medievalist

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802701531

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About this book

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing that the idea of the medieval past is central to the work of novelists and directors interested in embodiment and vulnerability.

Author / Editor information

Vishnuvajjala Usha :

Usha Vishnuvajjala is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY–New Paltz. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and edited collections and she recently co-edited the volume Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (2022) with Karma Lochrie

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: Nested Medievalisms and Affected Bodies in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2: Feminism and Medievalism in Woolf’s Final Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 3: Medievalism as Feminist Sanctuary in the late Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4: Chaucer, Vulnerable Bodies, Somatophobia, and Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Conclusion: Feminisms and Medievalisms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 142
Keywords: Embodied medievalism; Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey; Virginia Woolf; Chaucer

eBook

Published: January 31, 2024
ISBN: 9781802701531