Feminist Medievalisms : : Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film / / Usha Vishnuvajjala.
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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Vishnuvajjala, Usha, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Feminist Medievalisms : Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film / Usha Vishnuvajjala. Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2024] ©2024 1 online resource (142 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Arc Medievalist Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. The 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) Feminist criticism. Middle Ages in literature. Middle Ages in motion pictures. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Chaucer. Embodied medievalism. Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey. Virginia Woolf. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024 9783111332352 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802701531?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781802701531 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781802701531/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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