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oapen-20.500.12657-260172021-11-10T07:56:32Z Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación 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 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory 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. 2019-01-22 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-16 03:00:26 2020-04-01T10:57:20Z 2020-04-01T10:57:20Z 2017-12-31 book 1004068 OCN: 1100523315 9781786948441 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26017 eng Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society application/pdf n/a 1004068.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.2307/j.ctt1ps32vm 102602 10.2307/j.ctt1ps32vm 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781786948441 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Liverpool 102602 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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