Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages

by Tison Pugh

Book Overview

Using queer theory to untangle all types of nonnormative sexual identities, Tison Pugh uses Chaucer'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's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages considers the many ways in which anti-eroticisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253024
• ISBN13: 9780814253021
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"