LEADER 03107nam 22005173 450 001 9910985624503321 005 20240112080220.0 010 $a9781802701531 010 $a1802701532 024 7 $a10.1515/9781802701531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31060401 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31060401 035 $a(NjHacI)9929553678500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)664213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781802701531 035 $a(CKB)29553678500041 035 $a(OCoLC)1417177935 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929553678500041 100 $a20240112d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFeminist Medievalisms $eEmbodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cArc Humanities Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (142 pages) 225 1 $aArc Medievalist Series 311 08$aPrint version: Vishnuvajjala, Usha Feminist Medievalisms Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2024 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Nested medievalisms and affected bodies in jane austen's northanger abbey -- Feminism and medievalism in woolf's final works -- Medievalism as feminist sanctuary in the late twentieth century -- Chaucer, vulnerable bodies, somatophobia, and theory -- Conclusion: FEMINISMS AND MEDIEVALISMS -- Select bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that the idea of the medieval past is central to the work of novelists and directors interested in embodiment and vulnerability. Careful and illuminating analysis of particular moments in fiction, film, and political discourse dismantles the false binary between popular and intellectual medievalisms, which rests on gendered understandings of genre and audience, while demonstrating that masculinist or patriarchal medievalisms have an equal but understudied counterpart.The book's first three chapters cover Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and its afterlives, the final works of Virginia Woolf, and late twentieth-century film and music videos from the United States. The final chapter examines the treatment of women's bodies and vulnerability in both political theory and recent electoral politics, arguing that they share a common thread of misogyny rooted in the idea of the medieval past, and that one way to challenge that misogyny is by looking at complex feminist engagements with that same past, both real and imagined. 410 0$aArc Medievalist Series 606 $aFeminist literature 615 0$aFeminist literature. 676 $a809.93358207 700 $aVishnuvajjala$b Usha$01332695 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910985624503321 996 $aFeminist Medievalisms$94334801 997 $aUNINA