Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity Under Duress in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Queering Harry Bailly: Gendered Carnival, Social Ideologies, and Masculinity Under Duress in the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Chaucer Review 41(2006): 39-69.
- Description
- In his initial governance of the carnivalesque "play" of tale-telling, Harry Bailly augments his masculinity by "queering" his fellow pilgrims; by the end of CT, his own masculinity is "undermined" by his inability to control the carnival he set in motion and by the self-queering personal "revelations" the Tales provoke him to make.
- Reprinted in Pugh's Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales - General.