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Titre(s) : Sexual culture in the literature of medieval Britain [Texte imprimé] / edited by Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse and Cory James Rushton
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : D. S. Brewer, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (186 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction : A Light Thrown upon Darkness : Writing about Medieval British Sexuality
/ Robert Allen Rouse and Cory James Rushton ; "Open manslaughter and bold bawdry"
: Male Sexuality as a Cause of Disruption in Malory's Morte Darthur / Kristina Hildebrand
; Erotic (Subject) Positions in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale / Amy S. Kaufman ; Enter
the Bedroom : Managing Space for the Erotic in Middle English Romance / Megan G. Leitch
; "Naked as a nedyll" : The Eroticism of Malory's Elaine / Yvette Kisor ; "How love
and I togedre met" : Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the Confessio Amantis
/ Samantha J. Rayner ; "Bogeysliche as a boye" : Performing Sexuality in William
of Palerne / Hannah Priest ; Fairy Lovers : Sexuality, Order and Narrative in Medieval
Romance / Aisling Byrne ; Text as Stone : Desire, Sex, and the Figurative Hermaphrodite
in the Ordinal and Compound of Alchemy / Cynthea Masson ; Animality, Sexuality and
the Abject in Three of Dunbar's Satirical Poems / Anna Caughey ; The Awful Passion
of Pandarus / Cory James Rushton ; Invisible Woman : Rape as a Chivalric Necessity
in Medieval Romance / Amy N. Vines.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently,
and perhaps no type of 'doing' is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours.
Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between
the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly
imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened 'medieval' sexuality on the other. British
medieval sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential paradigms
of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or defiler of women. However, such
sexual identities are rarely coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the
interstices between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most compelling
instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This collection of essays brings
together a wide-ranging discussion of the sexual possibilities and fantasies of medieval
Britain as they manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as their
matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower, Dunbar, Malory, alchemical
treatises, and romances, the contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes,
strategies and sexual subject positions."--Publisher's Web site
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Hopkins, Amanda (1962-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rouse, Robert Allen (1971-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rushton, Cory (1969-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Thèmes, motifs
Sexualité -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843843795 (hbk.) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 184384379X (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44308852x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44308852
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