Rough Love: Notes Toward an Erotics of The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Allman, W. W., and D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Rough Love: Notes Toward an Erotics of The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Chaucer Review 38: 36-65. , 2003.
- Description
- A "bodily economy of piercing men and pierced women" can be found throughout CT. Lovemaking is associated with cutting, stabbing, bleeding, and dying. The only accounts of lovemaking not connected to stabbing or bloodletting occur in the musical interlude of MilT and at the end of WBT.
- Contributor
- Hanks, D. Thomas (Jr.)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.