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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552785403321

Autore

Pugh Tison

Titolo

Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / Tison Pugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8142-7319-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New studies in Medieval culture

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Sex in literature

Eroticism in literature

Homosexuality in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.