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Aisling Byrne, Amanda Hopkins, Robert Rouse, Robert Allen Rouse, Cory Rushton, Cory James Rushton...

Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

English · Hardback

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Description

An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises.

List of contents

Introduction: A Light Thrown upon Darkness: Writing about Medieval British Sexuality - Robert Rouse
Introduction: A Light Thrown upon Darkness: Writing about Medieval British Sexuality - Cory 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 Rushton
Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance - Amy N. Vines

About the author

Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, Cory James Rushton

Product details

Authors	Aisling Byrne, Amanda Hopkins, Robert Rouse, Robert Allen Rouse, Cory Rushton, Cory James Rushton, Amy N. Vines
Assisted by	Amanda Hopkins (Editor), Robert Rouse (Editor), Robert (Customer) Rouse (Editor), Robert Allen Rouse (Editor), Cory Rushton (Editor), Cory (Customer) Rushton (Editor), Cory James Rushton (Editor), Cory James (Customer) Rushton (Editor)
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	21.08.2014

EAN	9781843843795
ISBN	978-1-84384-379-5
No. of pages	192
Dimensions	156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
Weight	449 g
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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