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Sexual culture in the literature of medieval Britain /

"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-stru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hopkins, Amanda, 1962- (Editor ), Rouse, Robert Allen, 1971- (Editor ), Rushton, Cory (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.