Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur

ISBN-13: 9780367665876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Tory Pearman

Opis

This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction: "Able to do Lyke a Knight": Disability in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Chapter 1: "Disability, Lovesickness, and the Chivalric Code: Women Healers and Harmers in the Morte"

Chapter 2: "‘For whome he wente oute of hys minde’: Women and the Love-madness of Tristram and Lancelot"

Chapter 3: "(Dis)abling Heteronormativity: The Touch of the Queer/Crip in Malory’s Morte"

Chapter 4: "Vessels of Blood: (Dis)abled Bodies and the Grail in Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’"

Chapter 5: Lancelot’s Wounds, the Healing of Urry, and Images of (Dis)ability in the Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Tory V. Pearman, Associate Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, earned her M.A. at Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Loyola University. She has published widely on the intersections between gender and disability in medieval literature. She is author of Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010).