Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature

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Label

Sexuality and its queer discontents in Middle English literature

Statement of responsibility

Tison Pugh

Creator

• Pugh, Tison

Subject

• Homosexuality in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• Heterosexuality in literature
• Gender identity in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun, and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing such queerness might remain at the story's end. Masculinity itself is thus revealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists of medieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting its constricting limitations."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/35380902

Index

index present

LC call number

PR275.G44

LC item number

P84 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The new Middle Ages