Chaucer's (anti-) eroticisms and the queer Middle Ages

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Chaucer's (anti-) eroticisms and the queer Middle Ages

Statement of responsibility

Tison Pugh

Creator

• Pugh, Tison

Author

• Pugh, Tison

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Eroticism in literature
• Eroticism in literature
• Homosexuality in literature
• Homosexuality in literature
• Sex in literature
• Sex in literature
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Using queer theory to untangle all types of nonnormative sexual identities, Tison Pugh uses Chaucer{u2019}s work to expose the ongoing tension in the Middle Ages between an erotic culture that glorified love as an ennobling passion and an anti-erotic religious and philosophical tradition that denigrated love and (perhaps especially) its enactments. Chaucer{u2019}s (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages considers the many ways in which anti-eroticisms complicate the conventional image of Chaucer. With chapters addressing such topics as mutual masochism, homosocial brotherhood, necrotic erotics, queer families, and the eroticisms of Chaucer{u2019}s God, Chaucer{u2019}s (Anti-)Eroticisms will forever change the way readers see the Canterbury Tales and Chaucer{u2019}s other masterpieces. For Chaucer, erotic pursuits establish the thrust and tenor of many of his narratives, as they also expose the frustrations inherent in pursuing desires frowned upon by the religious foundations of Western medieval culture. One cannot love freely within an ideological framework that polices sexuality and privileges the anti-erotic Christian ideals of virginity and chastity, yet loving queerly creates escapes from social structures inimical to amour and its expressions in the medieval period. Thus Chaucer is not just England{u2019}s foundational love poet, he is also England{u2019}s foundational queer poet. --Provided by publisher

Member of

• Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.1

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR1933.H66

LC item number

P84 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture