Mapping a History of Sexuality in Melibee

Author / Editor
Burger, Glenn.

Title
Mapping a History of Sexuality in Melibee

Published
Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 61-70 and 198-203.

Description
Burger follows Gilles Deleuze and FeĢliz Guattari in associating "mapping" with modernity, resistance, and queerness and associating "tracing" with medieval times, hegemony, and heterosexuality. Explores how Mel can be seen to "map" Melibee's submission to Prudence as a process of feminization and a means to help its original audiences imagine ways to escape traditional categories and boundaries.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee.