03021nam 2200685 a 450 991045220740332120200520144314.00-8166-9412-5(CKB)1000000000346804(EBL)310641(OCoLC)476095377(SSID)ssj0000102712(PQKBManifestationID)11120106(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102712(PQKBWorkID)10060053(PQKB)10238160(MiAaPQ)EBC310641(OCoLC)191952574(MdBmJHUP)muse38862(Au-PeEL)EBL310641(CaPaEBR)ebr10151301(CaONFJC)MIL522404(EXLCZ)99100000000034680420030407d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmoral Gower[electronic resource] language, sex, and politics /Diane WattMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20031 online resource (240 p.)Medieval cultures ;v. 38Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4028-9 0-8166-4027-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Texts; Preface; Introduction: Social Gower; PART I: LANGUAGE; 1. Gower's Babel Tower: Language Choice and the Grammar of Sex; 2. Writing Like a Man: Rhetoric and Genealogy; PART II: SEX; 3. Transgressive Genders and Subversive Sexualities; 4. Sexual Chaos and Sexual Sin; PART III: POLITICS; 5. Tyranny, Reform, and Self-Government; 6. Oedipus, Apollonius, and Richard II; Epilogue: Ethical Gower; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZDrawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gower's writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to modern debates about the ethics of criticism.Medieval cultures ;v. 38.Politics and literatureGreat BritainHistoryTo 1500Ethics, Medieval, in literatureCourtly love in literaturePolitics in literatureSex in literatureElectronic books.Politics and literatureHistoryEthics, Medieval, in literature.Courtly love in literature.Politics in literature.Sex in literature.821/.1Watt Diane1965-886306MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452207403321Amoral Gower2121665UNINA