Chaucer's Queer Nation
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Chaucer's Queer Nation
- Published
- Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 264 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Cultures, no. 34.
- Description
- CT can destabilize essentialist categories of sexuality, subjectivity, and nationality. From a queer and postcolonial perspective, CT enables or compels neither a symbolically simple London originary nor an allegorically closed ending, but rather an ongoing "middle" that reflects a late-medieval social context useful in deconstructing reductionist historicisms and traditional criticism.
- Burger focuses on shame, pleasure, masochism, and subjectivity in MilPT; conjugality and the new gentil elite in WBT, MerT, and FranT; effacement of the feminine and touching the queer in PhyT and PardT; dismantling hierarchies in Fragment 7 (especially Mel); and the process of denying ending in Fragments 8, 9, and 10.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales-General.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.