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Usha Vishnuvajjala - Feminist Medievalisms, Inbunden

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Feminist Medievalisms

Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Av Usha Vishnuvajjala

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-01-31
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 356 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Arc Medievalist
  • Antal sidor: 142
  • Förlag: Arc Humanities Press
  • ISBN: 9781641893831
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Usha Vishnuvajjala is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY–New Paltz. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and edited collections and she recently co-edited the volume Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (2022) with Karma Lochrie

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The book’s focus on medievalism in the writings of widely taught modern authors, as well as in visual media of the late twentieth century, means that it may be at least as useful to literary scholars working on other periods as it is to medievalists. This, in my view, is as valuable as it is unusual, demonstrating that medieval studies is neither stagnant nor insular. [...] The potential uses of this volume are many. I can envision it being used in classes on, for instance, women’s writing, or on medievalism in literature, or on medieval bodies, or on the history of emotions. It invites readers into conversation with the medieval and with medievalisms, and I hope it will be taken up by feminist scholars outside the broad field of medieval studies as well as within it.

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