Chaucer's Queer Nation /

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Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to bear on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this ambitious book compels a rethinking not only of this most canonical of works, but also of questions of sexuality and gender in pre- and postmodern contexts, of issues of modernity and nati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burger, Glenn, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sex in literature.
Human body in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Homosexuality and literature > England > History > To 1500.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Shameful Pleasures; 2. Medieval Conjugality and the Canterbury Tales; 3. Modernity and Marriage in the Canterbury Tales; 4. Queer Performativity in Fragment VI; 5. Desiring Machines; 6. Post-ality and the "End" of the Canterbury Tales; Notes; Index.

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