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Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature

Author

Pugh, Tison.

Title

Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature / Tison Pugh.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Description

xii, 220 p. ; 22 cm.

URL

Uniform series

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index.

Contents

Abandoning desires, desiring readers, and the divinely queer triangle of Pearl
Queering Harry Bailly : gendered carnival, social ideologies, and masculinity under duress in the Canterbury Tales
"He nedes not moot unto the pley assente" : queer fidelities and contractual hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
From boys to men to hermaphrodites to eunuchs : queer formations of romance masculinities and the hagiographic death drive in Amis and Amiloun
Queer castration, patriarchal privilege, and the comic phallus in Eger and Grime
Conclusion : compulsory queerness and the pleasures of Medievalism.

Kinsey subjects

Sex in literature. Sex variations in literature. Homosexuality in literature.

ISBN

1403984875 9781403984876