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Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

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  1. Tison Pugh
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 1-19

  3. Abandoning Desires, Desiring Readers, and the Divinely Queer Triangle of Pearl

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 21-47

  4. Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity Under Duress in the Canterbury Tales

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 49-73

  5. “He Nedes Moot Unto the Pley Assente”: Queer Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 75-99

  6. From Boys to Men to Hermaphrodites to Eunuchs: Queer Formations of Romance Masculinity and the Hagiographic Death Drive in Amis and Amiloun

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 101-121

  7. Queer Castration, Patriarchal Privilege, and the Comic Phallus in Eger and Grime

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 123-144

  8. Conclusion: Compulsory Queerness And The Pleasures Of Medievalism

    • Tison Pugh
    Pages 145-150

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-220
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This book 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 and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.

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"Adventurous, accessible, and fun, Pugh's study certainly qualifies as a must read for any medievalist interested in issues of sexuality and gender." - Speculum

"Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature is an excellent, groundbreaking book and a major contribution to the ongoing project of recuperating the queer in medieval literature. Pugh's primary concern is with constructions of heterosexual masculinity, and the ways in which such constructions are enabled by the intercession of the queer. This has always been one of the main projects of Queer Theory, and Pugh's book serves as a demonstration of the power of Queer Theory to address pre-modern representations, as well as being an important intervention in the study of medieval literature itself." - Robert Sturges, Professor of English, Arizona State University and author of Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory and Dialogue and Deviance

"Pugh s attention to questions of genre and narrative structure in the book is consistently engaging" - Studies in the Age of Chaucer

About the author

TISON PUGH is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, as well as a Distinguished Researcher in the College of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Central Florida, USA.

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