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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory...

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1. Verfasser: Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación
Format: Online
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Liverpool University Press 2021
Schlagworte:
Literature
Literary Theory
Literature History and Criticism
Fiction
Novelists and Prose Writers
Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Hispanic and Latino Studies
Spain
Modern Period
Women's Bodies
Disability
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory
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Zusammenfassung:Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women’s disability.

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