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Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun , and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing such queerness might remain at the story’s end. Masculinity itself is thus revealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists of medieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting its constricting limitations. Review "Adventurous, accessible, and fun, Pugh's study certainly qualifies as a must read for any medievalist interested in issues of sexuality and gender."-- Speculum “ Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature is an excellent, groundbreaking book and a major contribution to the ongoing project of recuperating the queer in medieval literature. Pugh's primary concern is with constructions of ‘heterosexual’ masculinity, and the ways in which such constructions are enabled by the intercession of the queer. This

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Author

T. Pugh, Tison Pugh

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230610521

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History