The Romance of Adultery : Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature /

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Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Fran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCracken, Peggy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romances.
Queens in literature.
French literature.
Adultery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
Litterature française > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Romances > History and criticism.
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is appropriated into the political structure of romance. McCracken examines the symbolic meanings and uses of the queen's body in both romance and the historical institutions of monarchy and points toward the ways medieval romance contributed to the evolving definition of royal sovereignty as exclusively male.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780812202748

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