Body Politics : Otherness and Representation of Bodies in Late Medieval Writings
- Author / Editor
- Blum, Martin Albert.
Body Politics : Otherness and Representation of Bodies in Late Medieval Writings
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 163A.
- Description
- Examines various ways gender, ethnicity, and disease interact with social class in selected texts. In MLT, race is less important than place in salvation history. The tale of Lucrece (LGW) seeks to keep women virginal for marital traffic. Erotic fabliaux like MilT warn elite young men of transgressive boundaries. Blum also discusses leprosy in Henryson's "Cresseid".
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Miller and His Tale.