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Jane Burns.
Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature.
Published Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P., 1993.
Series: New Cultural Studies.
ISBN 081223183X;
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 158×235×24mm.
Page count: xvii,247pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has no dustjacket; boards and spine a bit grubby and starting to fade, not severe, a little wear on the edges and corners; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $26.50/£20.99]
Weight without packaging: 678g.

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Contents: A close look at female orifices in farce & fabliau; A taste of knowledge — genesis & generation in the Jeu d’Adam; Beauty in the blindspot — Philomena’s talking hands [on the OFr Philomena]; Rewriting men’s stories — Enide’s disruptive mouth [Chrétien’s Eric et Enide]; Why beauty laughs; Iseut’s enormous thighs [Beroul’s Roman de Tristan]; Conclusion — bodies at stake.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 14pp
Index: yes

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