Queering the Summoner : Same-Sex Union in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Queering the Summoner : Same-Sex Union in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 301-24.
- Description
- Examines the "same-sex union of adoptive brotherhood" between the Summoner and the Pardoner and assesses the economic underpinnings of sworn brotherhood in FrT and SumT. Chaucer's alignment of homosexual and heterosexual issues in the Marriage Group and his presentation of the Summoner as bisexual are "coded means for inscribing" a forbidden topic in the Ricardian court, where imputations of Richard's relations with Robert de Vere were both known and kept secret.
- Alternative Title
- Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.